Quotations Flashcards
What does ‘Orsino’ mean?
Italian for bear cub suggesting his immaturity
Example to show Orsino’s love for Olivia:
‘Eyes did see Olivia first’
Key quotation from Sebastian at the end of the play:
‘Are all the people mad?’
Orsino’s opening line of the play:
‘If music be the food of love play on. Give me excess of it’
What theme does the quotation ‘he’s drunk nightly in your company’ represent?
Carnivalesque, excess
Who says this to who: ‘that quaffing and drinking will undo you’?
Maria says it to Sir Toby
What word does Sir Andrew get very confused over when meeting Maria?
‘accost’
What does Sir Andrew ‘Aguecheek’ ‘s name suggest?
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What do Sir Toby ‘Belch’ ‘s name suggest?
Belch
What quotation shows the instability of Viola and Orsino’s love?
She’s his favourite after ‘three days’
Example of Orsino’s open character:
‘I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul’
Example of Orsino being moody:
‘I myself am best when least in company’
Cesario describes his speech of love to Olivia as being…
‘Excellently well penned’
What does Cesario say to Olivia about her flaws?
‘I see you what you are, you are too proud but if you were the devil, you are fair’
What does Cesario say about his disguise in Act 1 Scene 5?
‘I am not that I play’
What quotation describes Viola’s plan when she lands on Illyria?
‘Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent’
The quotation Viola says expressing her love for Orsino:
‘Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife’
That quotation which makes Olivia fall in love with Cesario: is
‘Make me a willow cabin at your gate’ - used “me”!!!!
Who says this to who: ‘thine eye hath stayed upon some favour that it loves’ ?
Orsino to Viola
What truth does Viola tell in Act 2 Scene 4?
‘My father had a daughter loved a man’
What does the letter tell Malvolio to do?
‘Yellow stockings’ and ‘cross-gartered’
The quotation Malvoli says that makes him pervy:
‘And perchance wind up my watch, or play with my - some rich jewel’
Who says this: ‘I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me.’ ?
Malvolio
Finish this quotation by Antonio: ‘if you will not murder me for my love, …’
…’let me be your servant.’
Key quotation from Viola’s soliloquy:
‘Disguise, I see, thou art wickedness’ - apostrophises the disguise
A quotation to show Puritan vs carnivalesque:
‘My masters, are you mad?’
A quotation to show Toby taking money from Sir Andrew:
‘I have been dear to him, some two thousand strong or so’
Quotation to show Viola’s storge love:
‘O, my poor brother!’
What does olivia describe Malvolio as in Act 3 Scene 4?
‘Sad and civil’
Key quotation showing Viola crossing over between Viola as a character and actor:
‘I am not that I play’
Who does Feste dress up as in Act 4 Scene 2?
‘Sir Topas the curate’
What does Viola say in her soliloquy that shows her awareness of Olivia as a woman?
‘She did speak in starts distractedly’
Example of a paradox in a quotation:
‘Than love that would seem his: love’s night is noon’
An example of an oxymoron in a quotation:
‘Sweet pangs’
Finish this: ‘an apple cleft in two is…’
…’not more twin than these two creatures’
How does Cesario describe Feste in Act 3 Scene 1?
‘This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit.’
A metaphor for language being malleable:
‘A sentence is but a cheveril glove’
What does Feste say to expose Orsino?
‘For thy mind is a very opal’
A quotation to prove that Antonio is gay:
‘Let me be your servant’
How does Sebastian refer to Antonio?
‘My dear Antonio’
What goes around comes around
‘And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges’
A quotation to show Malvolio as a victim of cruelty:
‘I have been notoriously abused’
A quotation showing Sir Andrew’s love
‘I was adored once too’
What theme does this quotation show: ‘love sought is good, but given unsought is better’?
desire and love
A quotation showing philautia (self-love)
Olivia to Malvolio - ‘you are sick of self-love’
who said this: ‘make me a willow cabin at your gate’?
cesario to olivia
who said this and where: ‘thy small pipe is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound’
Orsino, Act 1 scene 4
what theme does this quotation show: ‘give me thy hand and let me see thee in thy women’s weeds’
gender
quotation from Sir Andrew showing the theme of carnivalesque
‘I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues, that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear baiting.’ (act 1 scene 3)
who said this and where? ‘why, this is very midsummer madness’
olivia, act 3 scene 4
who said that is and where? ‘if this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction’
fabian, act 3 scene 4
who said this and where? ‘I am all the daughters of my father’s house and all the brothers too’
Viola, act 2 scene 4
Viola realising that Cesario is based on Sebastian
‘for him I imitate’
finish this: ‘conceal me what I am, and be my aid for…’
‘… such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent’
who says this and where? ‘there’s something in’t that is decievable’
sebastian, act 4 scene 3
quotation to show Malvolio’s wish for upward social mobility
‘some rich jewel’ and ‘branched velvet gown’
‘cucullus non facit monachum’
Latin
Basically saying that outward appearances are not all within
