Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Friendship Quotes
Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu. Think on thy Proteus when thou haply seest Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel. Wish me partaker in thy happiness When thou dost meet good hap; and...
Love Quotes
Were 't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad (1.1.3-6)
Transformation Quotes
PROTEUSI leave myself, my friends and all, for love. Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me, Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, War with good counsel, set the world at nought; Made wit with...
Violence Quotes
LUCETTA But in what habit will you go along? JULIA Not like a woman, for I would prevent The loose encounters of lascivious men. Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds As may beseem some well-reput...
Lies and Deceit Quotes
JULIAHow angerly I taught my brow to frown, When inward joy enforced my heart to smile! (1.2.65-66)
Gender Quotes
PROTEUSThou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me, Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, War with good counsel, set the world at nought; Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought. (1.1.68...
Marriage Quotes
PROTEUSO, that our fathers would applaud our loves To seal our happiness with their consents. O heavenly Julia! (1.3.49-51)
Society and Class Quotes
LUCETTA What would your Ladyship? JULIA Is 't near dinner time? LUCETTA I would it were, That you might kill your stomach on your meat And not upon your maid. (1.2.70-74)