Best Twelfth Night Quotes

Feste on Wit

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit”

Feste dirty joke

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage”

Feste on foolery’s presence

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

Feste on ignorance

“There is no darkness but ignorance”

Sir Andrew on his wit

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

Olivia on her madness

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

Olivia on the surrounding madness

“Why this is very midsummer madness”

Malvolio on Andrew and Toby’s madness

“My masters are you mad?”

Viola on gender

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

Antonio on his love for Sebastian

“I adore thee so”

Orsino on music and love

“If music be the food of love, play on”

Orsino on the fleeting nature of love

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

Orsino getting bored of love

“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 last line

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

Feste on the nature of rain

“For the rain it raineth every day”

Sir Andrew on his past love

“I was adored once too”

Viola on melancholy

“With a green and yellow melancholy”

Orsino on Viola and Sebastian

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

Viola telling Olivia about her disguise

“I am not what I am”

Viola asking for help from the captain

“Conceal me what I am”

Viola on the consequences of her disguise

“Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness”