Twelfth Night Quotes Flashcards
Complete the quotations and who said it?
Complete the quotation:
“O, when mine (1)_____ did see Olivia first, Methought she purg’d the air of (2)_________.”
Who says this and what does it this mean?
1) Eyes
2) Pestilence
This means that Orsino sees Olivia as pure and angelic, she fell in love with her fast just like Olivia does to Cesario.
“Conceal me what I am”- Viola A1S3
What themes does this quote link to?
- Disguise
- Deception
Complete the quotation about Cesario:
“Already you are no (1) _________”
1) Stranger
“Is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?”
What does Cesario’s question to Valentine suggest?
Viola wants to know whether Orsino is a loyal lover because she actually loves him. By the end of the play we know that Orsino is very inconstant, he switches his love from Olivia to Viola in a heartbeat.
Complete Orsino’s quotation:
“She will attend it (1) _______ in thy youth, than in a (2) _______ of more grave aspect.”
1) better
2) nuncio’s
“And all is a semblative a woman’s part.” Orsino to Cesario
What does this suggest about Orsino’s feeling towards Cesario?
Orsino recognises feminine qualities in Cesario which might have homosexual connotations, but might also foreshadow that he would find Viola attractive in her female state.
Complete the quotation:
“Yet, a barful (1) _______! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his (2) _______.”
1) Strife
2) Wife
Complete Malvolio’s quotation:
“I (1) ________ your ladyship takes delight in such a (2) _________ rascal.”
1) Marvel
2) Barren
Complete Olivia’s quotation:
“O you are sick of (1) _________, Malvolio, and taste with a (2) __________ appetite.”
1) Self-love
2) Distempered
Complete the quotation:
“I would be (1) ________ to cast away my speech.”
1) Loath
Complete Viola’s quotation:
“What I (1) ____, and what I would , are as (2) _______ as maidenhead.”
1) Am
2) Secret
Complete Olivia’s quotation about Orsino:
“I suppose him (1)________, know him (2)_______, of great estate, of fresh and (3) ________ youth.”
1) Virtuous
2) Noble
3) Stainless
“Even so quickly may one catch the plague?”
What does this suggest about Olivia?
This suggests that Olivia and Orsino are alike in their emotions, they both easily think to have fallen in love quickly.
Complete Olivia’s quotation about fate:
“What is (1) _______, must be: and be this so.”
1) Decreed
“It was said she much resembled me.”- Sebastian A2S1
What does this suggest?
This foreshadows the confusion that will later occur in the play, it tells the audience that comedy will be created from the confusion as well.
Complete Antonio’s quotation to Sebastian?
“For my (1) _____, let me be your (2) _______.”
1) Love
2) Servant
Complete the quotation from Viola’s monologue:
“Poor lady, she were better love a (1) ______. Disguise, I see thou art a (2) ________.”
1) Dream
2) Wickedness
“My state is desperate for my master’s love.”
“In women’s waxen hearts…our fragility is the cause, not we.”
What do these two quotations imply about Shakespeare’s intentions?
These quotations help to show that Viola is yearning for Orsino’s love whilst having to pursue Olivia for him. She blames her female “fragility” on her feelings and not herself.
Complete the quotation:
“My (1)________, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no (2) _____, manners, nor (3) _______…?”
1) Masters
2) Wit
3) Honesty
What does Maria say she will turn Malvolio into?
“A common recreation”
Complete Maria’s quotation:
“I can write very like my lady your niece; on a (1) ________ matter we can hardly make (2) ________ of our hands.”
1) Forgotten
2) Distinction
This is another form of disguise
Complete Orsino’s quotation:
“For such as I am, all (1) _____ _________ are: Unstaid and (2)_______ in all motions.”
1) True lovers
2) Skittish
Complete Viola’s quotation:
“She never told he love, but let (1) __________, like a worm i’th’bud, feed on her damask cheek.”
1) concealment
Complete the quotation:
” She uses me with a more (1)________ respect than anyone else that (2) _______ her.”
Who says this and who are they talking about?
1) Exalted
2) Follows
Malvolio about Olivia
Complete Malvolio’s quotation:
“I do not now (1)_____ myself, to let (2) __________ jade me.”
1) Fool
2) Imagination
Complete Feste’s quotation:
“How quickly the (1) _______ side may be (2) _________ outward!”
1) Wrong
2) Turned
What does Viola say about Feste and his wisdom?
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool.”
“He must observe their mood on whom he jests.”
“Labour s a wise man’s art”
When Viola says that she pities Olivia, how does Olivia respond? What does her response say about feelings?
“That’s a degree to love.”
Olivia does not want to accept rejection from Viola.
Complete Olivia’s quotation:
“Nor wit nor reason can my (1) ________ hide.”
1) Passion
Complete Maria’s quotation about Malvolio:
” Best to have some (1) _______ about you if he come, for sure the man is (2) _________ in’s wits.”
1) Guard
2) Tainted
Complete the quotation:
“Nothing that can be can come (1) _______ me and the full (2) ________ of my hopes.”
1) Between
2) Prospect
Complete Malvolio’s quotation:
“Go (1) ______ yourselves all. You are idle, shallow (2) _________; I am not of your element.”
1) Hang
2) Things
Complete Sir Toby’s quotation:
“My niece is already in the belief that he’s (1) _____: we may carry it thus for our (2) _________.”
1) Mad
2) Pleasure
Viola says to Toby in Act 3, scene 4:
“My remembrance is very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man.”
What does this say about Viola’s character?
It suggests that Viola does not wish any harm to anybody, her motives are innocent and she does not have the fighting skill of a man.
Complete Viola’s quotation:
“Pray God (1) _______ me! A little thing would make me tell them how much i lack of a (2) ____.”
1) Defend
2) Man
Complete Sebastian’s quotation:
“What relish is this? How runs the stream? Or I am (1) _____, or else this is a (2) ________.”
1) Mad
2) Dream
Maria says to Feste in Act 4, scene 2:
“Nay, I prithee put on this gown, and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate.”
What themes can this quote link to?
- Disguise
- Deceit
- Madness
- Comedy
Complete Malvolio’s quotation:
“Never was man thus (1) ________. Good Sir Topas, do not think i am (2) ______. They have laid me here in hideous (3) _________.”
1) Wronged
2) Mad
3) Darkness
Complete Feste’s comment to Malvolio:
“There is no (1) ________ but (2)__________.”- A4S2
1) Darkness
2) Ignorance
Complete Malvolio’s quotation:
“Fool, there was never man so (1) ___________ abused! I am as well in my (2) _____, fool, as thou art.”
1) Notoriously
2) Wits
Complete Orsino’s description of the twins:
“One face, one (1) _______, one habit, and two (2) ________!
1) Voice
2) Persons
Complete Sebastian’s quotation to Olivia:
“You would have been (1) __________ to a (2) ______.
1) Contracted
2) Maid
Complete Orsino’s quotation to Viola:
“Since you called me (1)_____ for so long, here is my (2) _____; you shall from this time be your master’s (3) _______.
1) Master
2) Hand
3) Mistress
Complete Malvolio’s quotation to Olivia:
“Why have you (1) _______ me to be imprison’d, kept in a (2) ______ house, visited by the priest, and made the most notorious (3) _____ _____ _______ that e’er invention play’d on?”
1) Suffer’d
2) Dark
3) Geck and Gull
