As You Like It Rosalind (Ganymede) Quotes

ROSALIND
Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet
and hose? What did he when thou saw'st him? What
said he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What
makes him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains
he? How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou
see him again? Answer me in one word. (3.2.223-228)

OMG! Rosalind can't wait to hear what Orlando's been up to when she finds out that he's not only in the forest, but that he's also been tagging up all the trees with poetry about her.  Like we've said, even Rosalind, who's usually a calm and collected girl, is laid flat by love. 

ROSALIND [as Ganymede]
Love is merely a madness;
and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a
whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are
not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.  (3.2.407-411)

Rosalind really does believe love is a madness; she is not just speaking in jest here.  One of her intricacies as a character is to admit that love is madness and still be perfectly happy to get caught up in it (something someone like Jaques could not do).

Who might be your mother,
That you insult, exult, and all at once,
Over the wretched? What though you have no
   beauty—
As, by my faith, I see no more in you
Than without candle may go dark to bed— (3.5.39-44)

Oh, burn!  When Phoebe acts like a snotty Petrarchan mistress, Rosalind is not having any of it.  She even advises Phoebe to marry Silvius now while she can because nobody else will want her: "For I must tell you friendly in your ear,/ Sell when you can: you are not for all markets."  Ouch.