Twelfth Night Key Quotes Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1
“if music be the food of love , play on”
“give me excess of it , that, surfeiting, that appetite may sicken and die”
orsino
Act 1 Scene 2
“conceal me what i am”
“be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent”
viola
Act 1 Scene 3 - Sir Toby
“i’ll confine myself no finer than i am: these clothes are good enough to drink in”
“accost, sir andrew, accost”
Act 1 Scene 3 - Sir Andrew
“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
Act 1 Scene 4
“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
Act 1 Scene 5 - Feste
“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”
Act 1 Scene 5
“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
Act 2 Scene 1
“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
Act 2 Scene 2
"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!"
Act 2 Scene 4 - men’s love
“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
Act 2 Scene 4 - women’s love
“they are as true of heart as we” - C
Act 2 scene 4 - Viola
“i am all the daughters of my father’s house and all the brothers too”
act 2 scene 5 - letters
“these be her very Cs her Us and her Ts”
“M,O,A,I doth sway my life”
act 2 scene 5 - the letter
“i may command where i adore”
“some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em”
act 2 scene 5 - instructions
“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”
act 3 scene 1 - cesario
“dost thou live by thy tabour / no, sir, i live by the church”
act 3 scene 1 - confusion
“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”
act 3 scene 1 - olivia’s love
“what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip”
“love sought is good, but given unsought better”
act 3 scene 1 - viola
“by innocence i swear and by my youth i have one heart, one bosom and one truth”
act 3 scene 2 - sir andrew
“i saw your niece do more favours to the count’s serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me”
act 3 scene 2 - idea of duel
“challenge me the count’s youth to fight with him; hurt him in eleven places”
act 3 scene 2 - about sir andrew
“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”
act 3 scene 3 - antonio’s backstory
“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”
act 3 scene 3 - antonio’s kindness
“here’s my purse”
act 3 scene 4 - olivia irony
“where is malvolio? he is sad and civil”
act 3 scene 4 - malvolio to olivia
“not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs”
“to bed! ay sweet-heart, and i’ll come to thee”
act 3 scene 4 - duel
“i will deliver his challenge by word of mouth”
“fright them both that they will kill one another by the look like cockatrices”
act 3 scene 4
