Twelfth Night Quotes

Orsino

• “Enough; no more” (Childish stopping piano)

• “How quick and fresh art thou” (Fleeting love)

• “Leap all civil bounds” (Forceful and improper)

• Unfold the passion of my love” (By making Viola tell Olivia, the love is devalued)

Viola

• “Myself would be his wife” (Viola in love with Orsino)

• “Conceal me what I am”

• “Poor lady, she were better love a dream” (Viola pity on Olivia’s for falling for her)

Olivia

• “Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections” (Olivia falling for Viola)

• “Abjured the sight and company of men” (Given up men to focus on her brother)

• “We will draw the curtain, and show you the picture. Is’t not well done?” (Full of herself)

Sir Toby

• “He has three thousand ducats a year” (Shows his value of money)

• “Taunt him with the licence of ink” (Manipulating Sir Andrew)

• “I’ll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria” (Alcoholic)

Sir Andrew

• “I’ll help you Sir Toby” (Loyal to Toby)

• “I saw your niece do more favours to the Count’s serving an than she ever bestowed upon me” (In love with Olivia)

• “I knew ‘twas I, for many do call me fool”

Feste

• “To mourn for your brother’s souls being in heaven” (Uses wordplay to make Olivia a fool)

• “There is no darkness but ignorance”

• “I wear not motley in my brain” (Feste is only a fool in profession)

• “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit” (Intelligence)

• “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage” (Dirty joke)