You probably think you can tell a romantic soliloquy when you hear one, but this play’s dialogue is notoriously tricky. Can you tell the difference between the cynical wit of the servants and the flowery prose of the lovers? Take the Two Gentlemen Of Verona Quotes Quiz to find out. Many a reader confounds a jest with a solemn vow. Let’s see if you can tell the difference, one of the few.
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The Two Gentlemen Of Verona Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Love is a spirit all compact of fire.”
- “O heaven! were man but constant, he were perfect.”
- “I am but a fool, look you, and yet I have the wit to think my master is a kind of a knave.”
- “They do not love that do not show their love.”
- “I’ll woo you like a soldier, at arms’ end, and love you ’gainst the nature of love.”
- “O sweet-suggesting love, if thou hast sinned, teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it.”
- “Thus have I shunn’d the fire for fear of burning, and drench’d me in the sea, where I am drown’d.”
- “What’s here? A man’s broken promise!”
- “Who is Silvia? what is she, that all our swains commend her?”
- “He after honour hunts, I after love.”
- “She dreams on him that has forgot her love.”
- “The more thou damm’st it up, the more it burns.”
- “A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.”
- “I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom: Tarry I here, I but attend on death.”
- “Forsake not Silvia! do not so.”
- “The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst!”
- “Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another.”
- “Come not within the measure of my wrath.”
- “The best way is to slander Valentine with falsehood.”
- “I’ll be as patient as a gentle stream.”
- “I have no other but a woman’s reason: I think him so, because I think him so.”
- “To be slow in words is a woman’s only virtue.”
- “O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day.”
- “Except I be by Silvia in the night, there is no music in the nightingale.”
- “What’s to come is still unsure: in delay there lies no plenty.”
- “The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”
- “A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.”
- “Sweet love! sweet lines! sweet life!”
- “I’ll be thy master’s mate and thy mistress’s servant.”
- “His little dog Crab, that all this while hath sat in the corner, weeping.”