Twelfth Night Quotes

music

‘If music be the food of love, plan on / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The apetite may sicken, and so die.’ - ORSINO

hart

‘I turned into a hart / And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, / E’er since pursue me.’ - ORSINO

king

‘her sweet perfections, with one self king!’ - ORSINO

canopied

‘Away before me to sweet beds of flowers: / Love-thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers.’ - ORSINO

perchance

‘perchance he is not drowned.’ - VIOLA

conceal

‘Conceal me what I am.’- VIOLA

care

‘What a plague means my niece, to take the death of ehr brother thus? I am sure care’s an enemy to life.’ - SIR TOBY

modest

‘you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.’ - MARIA

accost

‘Good Mistress Accost.’ - SIR ANDREW

bar

‘bring your hand to th’buttery-bar and let it drink.’ - MARIA

barren

‘I let go your hand, I am barren.’ - MARIA

housewife

‘I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs, and spin it off.’ - SIR TOBY

caper

‘Let me see thee caper.’ - SIR TOBY

unclasped

‘Cesario, / Thou know’st no less but all: I have unclasped / To thee the book even of my secret soul.’ - ORSINO

semblative

‘thy small pipe / Is as the maidens’s organ, shrill and sound / And all is semblative a woman’s part.’ - ORSINO

woo

‘(ASIDE) Yet, a barful strife! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.’ - VIOLA

witty

‘For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.’ - FESTE

cucullus

‘Cucullus non facit monachum.’ - FESTE

madonna

‘The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.’ - FESTE

self-love

‘O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio.’ - OLIVIA

milk

‘One would think his mother’s milk were scarce out of him.’ - MALVOLIO

alone

‘Give us this place alone.’ - OLIVIA

heresy

‘O I have read it: it is heresy’ - OLIVIA

item

‘Item, two lips indifferent red; Item, two grey eyes with lids to them; Item, one neck, one chin and so forth.’ - OLIVIA

cannot love

‘I cannot love him. / Yet, I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, / Of great estate.’ - OLIVIA

willow

‘Make me a willow cabin at your gate.’ - VIOLA

plague

‘Unless the master were the man. - How now? / Even so quickly may one catch the plague?’ - OLIVIA

hour

‘myself and a sister. both born in an hour.’ - SEBASTIAN

murder

'If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.’ - ANTONIO

enemies

‘I have many enemies in Orsino’s court.’ - ANTONIO

adore

‘I do adore thee so / That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.’ - ANTONIO

disguise

‘Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness.’ - VIOLA

waxen

‘How easy is it for the proper false / In womens waxen hearts to set their forms!’ - VIOLA

monster

‘My master loves her dearly, / And I (poor monster!) fond as much on him.’ - VIOLA

knot

‘O time, thou must untangle this, not I: / It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.’ - VIOLA

dog

‘I am a dog at catch.’ - SIR ANDREW

steward

‘Art thou more thna a steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?’ - SIR TOBY

puritan

‘The devil a puritan that he is.’ - MARIA

write

‘I can write very like my lady your niece.’ - MARIA

beagle

‘Shes a beagle, true-bred.’ - SIR TOBY

adored

‘I was adored once too.’ - SIR ANDREW

complexion

‘What kind of woman is’it?’ / ‘Of your complexion.’ - ORSINO / VIOLA

roses

‘For women are as roses, whose fair flower, / Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.’ - ORSINO

taffera

‘changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea.’ - MALVOLIO

retention

‘no woman’s heart / So big, to hold so much: they lack retention.’ - ORSINO

appetite

‘Alas, their love may be called appetite / No motion of the liver.’ - ORSINO

grief

‘Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?’ - VIOLA

daughters

‘I am all the daughters of mt father’s house / And all the brothers too’ - VIOLA

bear

‘bear-baiting.’ / ‘We’ll have the bear again, and we will fool him black and blue.’ - FABIAN / MARIA

india

‘How now, my metal of India?’ - SIR TOBY

box

‘get ye all three into the box-tree.’ - MARIA

trout

‘here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.’ - MARIA

count

‘To be Count Malvolio!’ - MALVOLIO

foolish

‘you waste the treasure of your time with a foolish knight.’ - MALVOLIO

fool

‘I knew ‘twas I, for many do call me fool.’ - SIR ANDREW

P’s

‘these be her very c’s, her u’s and her t’s, and thus makes she her great P’s.’ - MALVOLIO

M O A I

‘M O A I doth sway my life.’ - MALVOLIO

detraction

you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels, than fortunes before you.’ - FABIAN

greatness

‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.’ - MALVOLIO

gross

‘I will wash off gross accquaintance.’ - MALVOLIO

yellow

‘I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, cross-gartered.’ - MALVOLIO

smile

‘I will smile.’ - MALVOLIO

wench

‘I could marry this wench for this device.’ - SIR TOBY

abhors

‘tis a colour she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests.’ - MARIA

melancholy

‘addicted to melancholy as she is.’ - OLIVIA

excellent devil

‘thou most excellent devil of wit!’ - SIR TOBY

beard

‘send thee a beard!’ - FESTE

chin

‘I am almost sick for one (ASIDE:) though I would not have it grow on my chin.’ - VIOLA

wise

‘This fellow is wise enough to play the fool. / And to do that well craves a kind of wit.’ - VIOLA

folly

‘For folly that he wisely shows is fit; / But wise men, folly-fall’n, quite taint their wit.’ - VIOLA

honour

‘Have you not set mine honour at the stake / And baited it with all th’unmuzzled thoughts / That tyrannous heart can think?’ - OLIVIA

I am not

‘I am not what I am.’ - VIOLA

manakin

‘This is a dear manakin to you, Sir Toby.’ / ‘I have been dear to him, lad - some two thousand strong, or so.’ - FABIAN / SIR TOBY

flea

‘so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea.’ - SIR TOBY

spur

‘My desire / (More sharp than filed stile) did spur me forth.’ - ANTONIO

possessed

‘very strange manner. He is sure possessed, madam.’ - MARIA

restore

‘Heaven restore thee!’ - OLIVIA

mankind

‘Defy the devil: consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.’ - SIR TOBY

fiction

‘If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as imporobably fiction.’ - FABIAN

dark

‘we’ll have him ina dark room and bound.’ - SIR TOBY

challenge

‘I will deliver his challenge by word of mouth.’ - SIR TOBY

fiend

‘A fiend, like thee, might bear my soul to hell.’ - OLIVIA

skilful

‘the most skilful, bloody and fatal opposite.’ - FABIAN

persuaded

‘I have persuaded him the youth’s a devil.’ - SIR TOBY

I lack

‘(ASIDE:) Pray God defend me! A little thing would make me tell them how much I lack of a man.’ - VIOLA

virtue

‘Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil / Are empty trunks o’erflourished by the devil.’ - ANTONIO

dares

‘One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more.’ - ANTONIO

idol

‘How vile and idol proves this God?’ - ANTONIO

so, so

‘Nothing that is so, is so.’ - FESTE

dream

‘If it be this to dream, still let me sleep!’ - SEBASTIAN

curate

‘Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic.’ - FESTE

Satan

‘Die thou dishonest Satan!’ - FESTE

transparent

‘it hath bay windows transparent.’ - FESTE

not mad

‘I m not mad, Sir Topas. I say to you, this house is dark.’ - MALVOLIO

abused

‘there was never man so notoriously abused: I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.’ - MALVOLIO

expose

‘For his sake / Did I expose myself (pure for his love) / Into the danger of this adverse town.’ - ANTONIO

kill

‘Kill what I love.’ - ORSINO

eyes

‘After him I love / More than I love these eyes, more than my life / More, by all mores, than e’er I shall love wife.’ - VIOLA

husband

‘Cesario, husband, stay.’ - OLIVIA

persons

‘One face, one voice. one habit, and two persons.’ - ORSINO