The course of true love never did run smooth

His character, John “Divine G” Whitfield, opens the film with another riveting speech from “Midsummer’s” — Lysander’s monologue about how “The course of true love never did run smooth” — which, the actor says, “tells you a lot about the character in the very first sentence.”

But the course of true love never did run smooth, as Shakespeare memorably put it.

As Shakespeare wrote, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

It’s been said that the course of true love never did run smooth, but who could have expected the painfully rocky road to romance reportedly encountered several times in recent weeks in a single Maryland city.