twelfth night quotes

Orsino, metaphor

"If music be the food of love, play on."

Orsino, personification

"O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou."

Curio, pun

"The hart."

Viola, foreshadowing

"Perchance he is not drowned."

Captain. similie

"like Arion on the dolphin's back"

Viola (line 44, act 1 scene 2)

And might not be delivered to the world

Viola (act 1.2, lines 51-52)

"And though that nature with a beauteous wall

Doth oft close in pollution"

Viola (act 1.2, lines 56-58)

"Conceal me what I am, and be my aid

For such disguise as haply shall become

The form of my intent."

Maria, chiasmus

"Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats."

Maria, allusion

"He's a very fool and a prodigal"

Toby, metaphor

"You mistake, knight. "Accost" is front her, board her, woo her, assail her."

Toby, simile

"It hangs like flax on a distaff,"

Toby, foreshadowing

"She'll none o' the' Count. She'll not match above her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit. I have heard her swear 't. Tut there's life in 't man."

Orsino, metaphor

"Is not more smooth and rubious, thy small pipe

Is as the maiden's organ."

Maria

"In the wars; and that you may be bold to say in your foolery."

Feste, allusion

"Well, God give them wisdom that have it, and those that are Fools, let them use their talents."

Feste, biblical allusion

"Apt, in good faith, very apt. Well, go thy way. If Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a piece of Eve's flesh as any in Ilyria."

Feste, aside & appostrophe

"Wit, an 't be they will, put me into fooling! Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools, and I that am sure I lack thee may pass for a wise man. For what saus Quinapalus? 'Better a witty Fool than a foolish wit.' —God bless thee, lady!"

Malvolio

"I told him you were asleep;" "He's fortified against any denial"

Malvolio, similie

Has been told so, and he says he;ll stand at your door like a sheriff's post and be the supporter to a bench, but he'll speak with you."

Malvolio, similie

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy—as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a codling when 'tis almost an apple. "This with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favored and he speaks very shrewishly, One would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him

Viola, pun

"I am not that I play."

Maria, metaphor

"Will your hoist sail, sir?"

Viola, metaphor

"No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer."

Olivia

"O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted! I will give out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall be inventoried and every particle and utensil labeled to my will: as, item, two lips indiffered red; item, two gray eyes with lids to them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were you sent hither to praise me?

Olivia

"Your lord does know my mind. I cannot love him. Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,

Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;

In voices well divulged, free, learned, and valiant, And in dimension and the shape of nature

A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him.

He might have took his answer long ago."

Olivia

"Unless perchance you come to me again"

Viola

"My master, not myself, lacks recompense"

Olivia, sililoque

"What is your parentage?"

Olivia

"Ourselves we do not owe"

Sebastian

"You must know of me, then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian, which I called Roderigo."

Antonio

"let me be your servant"

Antonio, sililoque

"That danger shall seem sport, I will go"

Viola

"Disguise I see thou art a wickedness"

Viola

"How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly,

And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,

And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.

Toby

"O' the twelfth day of December"

Malvolio, alliteration and simile

"My masters, are you mad? Or what are you?" (aliteration)

like tinkers (simile)

coziers' (aliteration)

respect of place, persons (aliteration)

Viola, simile

"like a worm i' th' bud"

Toby, foreshadowing

"I could marry this wrench for this device."

Andrew, foreshadowing

"So could I, too"

Feste, personification

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere."

Viola, paradox

"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool"

Viola, assonance & aliteration

But wise men, folly-fall'n (assonance), quite taint their wit (aliteration)

Olivia, hyperbole

"O, by your leave, I pray you.

I bade you never speak again of him.

But would you undertake another suit,

I had rather hear you solicit that

Than music from the spheres."

Viola, irony

"I am not what I am."

Olivia, aside & paradox

"O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful

In the contempt of anger of his lip!

A murd'rous shows itself more soon

Than love that would seem hid. Love's night is noon.— (paradox)

Maria, simile

"I have dogged him like his murderer.

Maria, hyperbole

"He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies."

Olivia, aside

"I have sent after him. He says he'll come.

How shall I feast him? What bestow of him?

For youth is bought more oft than beg or borrowed.

I speak too loud.—

Where's Malvolio? He is sad and civil

And suits well for a servant with my fortunes.

Where is Malvolio?

Olivia, aliteration

"Why, is this very midsummer madness!"

Legion

biblical allusion

Fabian, irony

"If this were played upon a stage now"

Viola, aside

"That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!"

Feste, verbal irony

"Nothing that is so is so."

Sebastian, aside

"What relish is in this? How runs the stream?

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;

If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!"

Malvolio

I am not mad. Sir Topas. I say to you this house is dark.

Feste, allusion

"thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog."

Orsino, aliteration

"Still so cruel?"

Olivia, aliteration

"Still so constant, lord"