The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion, and all made of wishes;
All adoration, duty, and observance;
All humbleness, all patience, and impatience;
All purity, all trial, all obeisance.
‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [90]
’Tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon.
‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [120]
It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o’er the green cornfield did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
Between the acres of the rye,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
These pretty country folks would lie,
In the spring time, &c.
This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
How that a life was but a flower,
In the spring time, &c.
And therefore take the present time,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;
For love is crownéd with the prime
In the spring time, &c.
‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]
Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.
‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [36]
A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own: a poor humour of mine, sir, to take
that that no man else will. Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in
your foul oyster.
‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [60]
The retort courteous...the quip modest...the reply churlish...the reproof valiant...the
countercheck quarrelsome...the lie circumstantial...the lie direct.
‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [96]. (referring to the degrees of the lie.)
Your ‘if’ is the only peace-maker; much virtue in ‘if’.
‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.