Desire and Love quotes Flashcards
“If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
Thy appetite may sicken, and so die”
Orsino
“But mine is all as hungry as the sea” and can “digest as much”
Orsino
“receiveth as the sea”
Orsino- suggests the notion of the ocean consuming everything that comes its way- suggests a sense of discontent- Orsino’s appetite will never be content
“me thought she purged the air of pestilence! That instant was i turned into a hart”
Orsino about Olivia- Shakespeare alludes to the story of Acteon who turned into the heart being hunted- Orsino suggests he embodies the appetite of love
“Oh you are sick of self love Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite”
Olivia to Malvolio
women “lack retention”
Orsino on how women’s love does not go as deep as a man’s
“plague”
Olivia describes love as a plague of which she suffers from
“poor lady, she were better love a dream”
Viola about Olivia- suggests love causes suffering
“what is love? tis not hereafter”
Feste- expresses his view of how love is not in our future
“come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youths a stuff will not endure”
Olivia- suggesting that love is something that dies with age
“for such that i am, all true lovers are”
Orsino- suggesting a self infatuated tone- he sees himself as an ideal of a lover
“appetite”
Orsino’s description of his love as an appetite, something that may never be fulfilled
“i have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul”
Orsino
How does he love me?
” with groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire”
Viola explains to Olivia how much Orsino loves her- diction suggests love as a suffering and as dangerous and powerful
“I do not know what and fear to find, mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind”
Olivia - scared of love and of the power of it - suggests an outward admiration not a heart to heart lust
