Year 13 Twelfth Night Quotes (Best)

Orsino on excessive love

“If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it”

Sir Andrew on his wit

“I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit”

Feste on love

“What is love?”

Malvolio reading the false letter on greatness

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them”

Olivia on madness

“Why this is very midsummer madness”

Orsino on Viola’s gender reveal

“Give me thy hands and let me see in thy women’s weeds”

Antonio on his feeling for Sebastian

“But come what may, I adore thee so”

Orsino on the fleeting nature of love

“O spirit of love, how quick and freshe art thou”

Feste’s dirty joke

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage”

Feste on the end

“Journeys end in lovers meeting”

Viola speaking about love to Olivia of Orsino’s behalf

“With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire”

Feste on wit and the fool

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit”

Feste on foolery

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun”

Feste on ignorance

“There is no darkness but ignorance”

Olivia of her own madness

“I am as mad as he, if sad and merry madness equal be”

Malvolio questioning Toby and Andrew

“My master are you mad?”

Viola on her gender

“I am all the daughters of my father’s house, and all the brothers too”

Fragility of Orsino’s infatuation

“Tis not so sweet now as it was before”

Viola on her love for Orsino

“Myself would be his wife”

Olivia on her love for Viola

“Even so quickly may one catch the plague”

Malvolio’s final line

“I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you”

Feste on the rain

“For the rain it raineth everyday”

Andrew on his previous love

“I was adored once too”

Viola on melancholy

“With a green and yellow melancholy”

Orsino seeing both Viola and Sebastian

“One face, once voice, one habit, two persons”

Viola telling Olivia her disguise

“I am not what I am”

Viola asking the captain for a disguise

“Conceal me what I am”

Viola on the nature of her disguise

“Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness”