12th night character lines Flashcards
Orsino
“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
“Methought she purged the air of pestilence.That instant was I turned into a hart,”
“Thy small pipe Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound” “smooth and rubious lips”
“semblative of a woman’s part”
“Our fancies…More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women’s are”
“Give me thy hand And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds”
Viola-9
“My father had a daughter loved a man / As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman / I should your lordship”
“I am the man”
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit.”
“Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife”
“Conceal me what I am”
“I am not what I am.”
“Our shows are more than will, for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love”
“Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness”
“Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, For such as we are made of, such we be.” (blaming olivias love on womanhood)
Sir Toby- 3
“A contagious breath.” (feste’s singing)
“we will fool him black and blue” (about Malvolio)
“I’ll confine myself no finer than I am.”
Malvolio-4
“To be Count Malvolio”(dreaming of marrying olivia)
“‘Tis with him in standing water, between boy and man.”(cesario)
“My masters, are you mad?”
I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings and cross-gartered
Lady Olivia
“Even so quickly may one catch the plague?” (talking about her immediate love for Cesario)
“Now go with me and with this holy man” - marrying
“It is the more like to be feigned. I pray you, keep it in” (talking abt dukes poetry)
“What think you of this Fool, Malvolio? Doth he
not mend?”
“Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections”
Antonio
“I could not stay behind you.” (Antonio and Sebastian arrive in Illyria. Sebastian says that Antonio didn’t have to come, but Antonio
insists that he has come out of “willing love” )
If you not murder me for my love, let me be your servant
Feste-5
“But that’s all one, our play is done,
And we’ll strive to please you every day” (Feste closes the production with one last song, a reminder of the way music sets the tone for much of Twelfth Night, a play that also begins with music)
“I am indeed not her fool but her corrupter of words”
“better to be a witty fool than a foolish wit”
“The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul, being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen”
“O mistress mine, where are you roaming?”
Sir Andrew-2
“I knew ‘twas I, for many do call me
fool.”
“O, had I but followed the arts!”
Maria
“Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint.”(talking abt the prank)
“Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown. He sees thee not” (talkiing abt sir topas disguise)
“He’s a very fool and a prodigal” sir andrew
Sebastian
“This pearl she gave me”
My stars shine darkly over me
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
Fabian
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” (talking abt the malvolio prank)
