Bartlette's Quotations: The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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1	Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.	Act i. Sc. 1.
2	I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.	Sc. 2.
3	O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!	Sc. 3.
4	And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.	Act ii. Sc. 1.
5	O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.	Ibid.
6	She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.	Sc. 4.
7	He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.	Sc. 7.
8	That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.	Act iii. Sc. 1.
9	Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale.	Ibid.
10	A man I am, cross'd with adversity.	Act iv. Sc. 1.
11	Is she not passing fair?	Sc. 4.
12	How use doth breed a habit in a man!	Act v. Sc. 4.
13	O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect.	Ibid.
14	Come not within the measure of my wrath.	Ibid.