Twelfth Night Key Quotes

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 1

“if music be the food of love , play on”
“give me excess of it , that, surfeiting, that appetite may sicken and die”
orsino

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 2

Answer 2

“conceal me what i am”
“be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent”
viola

Question 3

Act 1 Scene 3 - Sir Toby

Answer 3

“i’ll confine myself no finer than i am: these clothes are good enough to drink in”

“accost, sir andrew, accost”

Question 4

Act 1 Scene 3 - Sir Andrew

Answer 4

“i am a great eater of beef and i believe that does harm to my wit”
“ what is ‘pourquoi’?”
“plays o’ the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks 3 or 4 languages word for word without book and hath all the good gifts of nature” - sir toby

Question 5

Act 1 Scene 4

Answer 5

“unfold the passion of my love, surprise her with discourse of my dear faith” - orsino
“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
“whoe’er i woo myself would be his wife” - viola

Question 6

Act 1 Scene 5 - Feste

Answer 6

“many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage”
“better a witty fool, than a foolish wit”
“take the fool away […] take away the lady”
“good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool”

Question 7

Act 1 Scene 5

Answer 7

“oh you are sick of self-love malvolio” - olivia

“lady you are the cruel’st she alive if you will lead those graces to the grave and leave the world no copy” - cesario

Question 8

Act 2 Scene 1

Answer 8

“a lady, sir, though it was said she resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful” - sebastian
“but, come what may, i do adore thee so, that danger shall seem sport, and i will go” - antonio

Question 9

Act 2 Scene 2

Answer 9

"she were better love a dream.
Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
How easy is it for the proper-false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!"

Question 10

Act 2 Scene 4 - men’s love

Answer 10

“Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women’s are” - O
“We men may say more, swear more: but indeed our shows are more than will; for still we prove much in our vows, but little in our love” - V

Question 11

Act 2 Scene 4 - women’s love

Answer 11

“they are as true of heart as we” - C

Question 12

Act 2 scene 4 - Viola

Answer 12

“i am all the daughters of my father’s house and all the brothers too”

Question 13

act 2 scene 5 - letters

Answer 13

“these be her very Cs her Us and her Ts”

“M,O,A,I doth sway my life”

Question 14

act 2 scene 5 - the letter

Answer 14

“i may command where i adore”

“some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em”

Question 15

act 2 scene 5 - instructions

Answer 15

“remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered”
“be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants”
“let it appear in thy smiling”

Question 16

act 3 scene 1 - cesario

Answer 16

“dost thou live by thy tabour / no, sir, i live by the church”

Question 17

act 3 scene 1 - confusion

Answer 17

“i prithee, tell me what thou thinkest of me / that you do think you are not what you are”

“i am not what i am”

Question 18

act 3 scene 1 - olivia’s love

Answer 18

“what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip”

“love sought is good, but given unsought better”

Question 19

act 3 scene 1 - viola

Answer 19

“by innocence i swear and by my youth i have one heart, one bosom and one truth”

Question 20

act 3 scene 2 - sir andrew

Answer 20

“i saw your niece do more favours to the count’s serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me”

Question 21

act 3 scene 2 - idea of duel

Answer 21

“challenge me the count’s youth to fight with him; hurt him in eleven places”

Question 22

act 3 scene 2 - about sir andrew

Answer 22

“if he were opened and you were to find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea i’ll eat the rest of the anatomy”

Question 23

act 3 scene 3 - antonio’s backstory

Answer 23

“once, in a sea-fight, ‘gainst the count his galleys i did some service that were i ta’en here it would scarce be answer’d”

“if i be lapsed in this place i shall pay dear”

Question 24

act 3 scene 3 - antonio’s kindness

Answer 24

“here’s my purse”

Question 25

act 3 scene 4 - olivia irony

Answer 25

“where is malvolio? he is sad and civil”

Question 26

act 3 scene 4 - malvolio to olivia

Answer 26

“not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs”

“to bed! ay sweet-heart, and i’ll come to thee”

Question 27

act 3 scene 4 - duel

Answer 27

“i will deliver his challenge by word of mouth”

“fright them both that they will kill one another by the look like cockatrices”

Question 28

act 3 scene 4