Twelfth Night Quotations

Question 1

Orsino’s opening lines

Answer 1

If music be the food of love, play on/
Give me excess of it, that surfeiting/
The appetite may sicken and so die

Question 2

Viola on Seb being dead

Answer 2

My brother he is in Elysium/ perchance he is not drowned

Question 3

Maria telling off Toby

Answer 3

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order

Question 4

Orsino noticing a feminine quality in Cesario

Answer 4

Diana’s lip is not more smooth and rubious

Question 5

Feste on a fool’s wit

Answer 5

better a witty fool than a foolish wit

Question 6

Feste protesting he is not dim

Answer 6

i wear not motley in my brain

Question 7

what Malvolio calls Feste

Answer 7

Barren Rascal

Question 8

Olivia calling M narcissistic

Answer 8

O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio

Question 9

Viola idea of performance

Answer 9

I am not that I play

Question 10

Cesario insisting he won’t leave (dramatically)

Answer 10

Make me a willow cabin at your gate

Question 11

viola apostrophe to her disguise

Answer 11

Disguise, i see thou art a wickedness

Question 12

what Viola calls her disguised self

Answer 12

poor monster

Question 13

Viola talking to time about all the mess

Answer 13

O time, thou must untangle this, not I/ It is too hard a knot for me t’untie

Question 14

Feste making up words

Answer 14

I did impeticos thy gratility

Question 15

Malvolio trying to impose order

Answer 15

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you

Question 16

Toby insulting/ coming back at M

Answer 16

Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Question 17

Maria calling M a puritan

Answer 17

He is a kind of puritan…the best persuaded of himself

Question 18

according to Feste, things that make Orsino inconstant

x2

Answer 18

changeable taffeta

opal

Question 19

Orsino being stubborn about Olivia

Answer 19

I cannot be so answered

Question 20

Orsino on a woman’s capacity for love

Answer 20

they lack retention

Question 21

Sir Toby on Blood sports

Answer 21

we’ll have the bear again, and we will fool him black and blue

Question 22

M’s dream for himself

Answer 22

To be Count Malvolio

Question 23

Feste’s definition of his role

Answer 23

I am indeed not her fool but her corrupter of words

Question 24

Toby getting super dark about Malvolio

Answer 24

Come, we’ll have him in a dark room and bound… for our pleasure and his penance

Question 25

what Malvolio is referred to as by ?

Answer 25

Malvolio the Lunatic

Question 26

why Viola disguises herself (she says)

Answer 26

for him I imitate

Question 27

Feste summing up the general Illyria Vibe

Answer 27

nothing that is so is so

Question 28

Sebastian confused about the people of Illyria

Answer 28

Are all the people mad?

Question 29

Orsino being dramatic and saying he’ll kill Cesario

Answer 29

I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, to spite the raven’s heart within a dove

Question 30

what the priest says has gone on between Seb and

Olivia

Answer 30

a contract of eternal bond of love

Question 31

what Antonio say the twins resemble

Answer 31

An apple cleft in two

Question 32

what Seb says to V that he’ll say to her if it’s really her

Answer 32

‘Thrice welcome, drowned Viola’

Question 33

Orsino calling Viola for the last time

Answer 33

Cesario come-

Question 34

Olivia on gulling of Malvolio

Answer 34

he hath been most notoriously abused

Question 35

animals that pursue Orsino’s heart

Answer 35

fell and cruel hounds

Question 36

M’s last line

Answer 36

I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you!

Question 37

Feste on why M is punished

Answer 37

and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges