Twelfth Night, Finish that Quote Flashcards
“If music be the food of love, play on, ….”
“give me excess of it, that surfeiting the appetite may sicken and so die.”
- Orsino, Act 1, Scene 1
“Enough no more…”
“Tis not so sweet now as it was before.”
-Orsino, Act 1, Scene 1
“The element itself till seven years’ heat…”
“Shall not behold her face at ample view”.
-Valentine Act 1, Scene 1
“Away before me to beds of flowers…”
“Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers”.
-Orsino Act 1, Scene 1
“I pray thee - and I’ll pay thee bounteously - conceal me what I am…”
“and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke.”
-Viola Act 1, Scene 2
“What is ‘pourquoi? Do, or not do?…”
“He plays o’th’ viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages…”
“I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting.”
- Sir. Andrew, Act 1, Scene 3
“word for word without book.”
- Sir Toby, Act 1, Scene 3
“Fair lady, do you think you have fools in hand?” - Sir Andrew
… Maria
“Sir, I have not you by th’hand”.
- Maria, Act 1, Scene 3
“If the duke continue these favours towards you, Cesario, you are like to be much advanced…”
“He hath known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.”
- Valentine Act 1, Scene 4
“I have unclasped to thee …
“The book even of my secret soul”.
-Orsino Act 1, Scene 4
“Diana’s lip is not more smooth and rubious…”
“Thy small pipe is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound, and all is semblative a woman’s part.”
-Orsino Act 1, Scene 4
Yet a barful strife ….”
“Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.”
-Viola, Act 1, Scene 4
“Wit and be thy will, put me into good fooling …”
“For what says Quinapalus? ‘Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
- Feste Act 1, Scene 5
“I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a …”
“Barren rascal.”
-Malvolio Act 1, Scene 5
“O, you are sick of self love Malvolio and take with a distempered appetite…”
“To be generous, guiltless and free disposition is to take those things for bird bolts that you deem cannon bullets. There is no slander in an allowed fool.”
-Olivia Act 1, Scene 5
“Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty - I pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her. I would loath to cast away my speech…”
“for, besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken great pains to con it.”
-Viola, Act 1, Scene 5
“Alas, I took great pains to study it…”
“and tis poetical.”
-Viola, Act 1 , Scene 5
“In his bosom?…”
“In what chapter of his bosom?”
-Olivia, Act 1, Scene 5
“Make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house…”
“write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night; Hallow your name to the reverberate hills and make the babbling gossip of the air cry out ‘Olivia’.”
- Viola, Act 1, Scene 5
“Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections with…”
“An invisible and subtle strength to creep in at mine eyes.”
-Olivia Act 1, Scene 5
“But come what may…”
“I do adore thee so that danger shall seem sport, and I will go.”
- Antonio Act 2, Scene 1
“Come sir, you peevishly threw it to her…”
“And her will is it should be returned.”
- Malvolio Act 2, Scene 2
“Poor lady…”
“She were better love a dream”.
- Viola Act 2, Scene 2
“O time, thou must untangle this not I…”
“It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.”
-Viola Act 2, Scene 2
“My masters, are you mad or what are you?…”
“Have you no wit, manners nor honesty but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night. Do you make an alehouse out of my lady’s house?”
-Malvolio Act 2, Scene 3
“Art thou anymore than a steward?…”
“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
- Sir Toby, Act 2 , Scene 3
“With excellencies that is his grounds of faith…”
“that all that look on him love him.”
-Maria, Act 2, Scene 3
“If ever thou shalt love…”
“in the sweet pangs of it remember me; for such as I am all true lovers are.”
- Orsino, Act 2, Scene 4
“For boy, however we do praise ourselves our fancies are more…”
“giddy and unfirm, more longing wavering, sooner lost and worn than women’s are.”
-Orsino Act 2, Scene 4