Orlando De Boys Quotes in As You Like It (2006)

Orlando De Boys: I do desire we may be better strangers.

Rosalind: Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I had as lief be wooed of a snail.

Orlando De Boys: Of a snail?

Rosalind: Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head; a better jointure, I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings his destiny with him.

Jaques: I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee.

Rosalind: They say you are a melancholy fellow.

Jaques: I am so; I do love it better than laughing.

Rosalind: Those that are in extremity of either are abominable fellows and betray themselves to every modern censure worse than drunkards.

Jaques: Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.

Rosalind: Why then, 'tis good to be a post.

Jaques: I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical, nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's, which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness.

Rosalind: A traveler! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men's; then, to have seen much and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

Jaques: Yes, I have gained my experience.

Rosalind: And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad; and to travel for it too!

Orlando De Boys: Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!

Jaques: Nay, then, God by you, an you talk in blank verse.

Rosalind: Farewell, Monsieur Traveler.