Twelfth Night Quotes

Question 1

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?

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

“Conceal me what I am”- Viola A1S3

What themes does this quote link to?

Answer 2

• Disguise

- Deception

Question 3

Complete the quotation about Cesario:

“Already you are no (1) _________”

Answer 3

1) Stranger

Question 4

“Is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?”

What does Cesario’s question to Valentine suggest?

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Complete Orsino’s quotation:

“She will attend it (1) _______ in thy youth, than in a (2) _______ of more grave aspect.”

Answer 5

1) better

2) nuncio’s

Question 6

“And all is a semblative a woman’s part.” Orsino to Cesario

What does this suggest about Orsino’s feeling towards Cesario?

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Complete the quotation:

“Yet, a barful (1) _______! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his (2) _______.”

Answer 7

1) Strife

2) Wife

Question 8

Complete Malvolio’s quotation:

“I (1) ________ your ladyship takes delight in such a (2) _________ rascal.”

Answer 8

1) Marvel

2) Barren

Question 9

Complete Olivia’s quotation:

“O you are sick of (1) _________, Malvolio, and taste with a (2) __________ appetite.”

Answer 9

1) Self-love

2) Distempered

Question 10

Complete the quotation:

“I would be (1) ________ to cast away my speech.”

Answer 10

1) Loath

Question 11

Complete Viola’s quotation:

“What I (1) ____, and what I would , are as (2) _______ as maidenhead.”

Answer 11

1) Am

2) Secret

Question 12

Complete Olivia’s quotation about Orsino:

“I suppose him (1)________, know him (2)_______, of great estate, of fresh and (3) ________ youth.”

Answer 12

1) Virtuous
2) Noble
3) Stainless

Question 13

“Even so quickly may one catch the plague?”

What does this suggest about Olivia?

Answer 13

This suggests that Olivia and Orsino are alike in their emotions, they both easily think to have fallen in love quickly.

Question 14

Complete Olivia’s quotation about fate:

“What is (1) _______, must be: and be this so.”

Answer 14

1) Decreed

Question 15

“It was said she much resembled me.”- Sebastian A2S1

What does this suggest?

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Complete Antonio’s quotation to Sebastian?

“For my (1) _____, let me be your (2) _______.”

Answer 16

1) Love

2) Servant

Question 17

Complete the quotation from Viola’s monologue:

“Poor lady, she were better love a (1) ______. Disguise, I see thou art a (2) ________.”

Answer 17

1) Dream

2) Wickedness

Question 18

“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?

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Complete the quotation:

“My (1)________, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no (2) _____, manners, nor (3) _______…?”

Answer 19

1) Masters
2) Wit
3) Honesty

Question 20

What does Maria say she will turn Malvolio into?

Answer 20

“A common recreation”

Question 21

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.”

Answer 21

1) Forgotten
2) Distinction

This is another form of disguise

Question 22

Complete Orsino’s quotation:

“For such as I am, all (1) _____ _________ are: Unstaid and (2)_______ in all motions.”

Answer 22

1) True lovers

2) Skittish

Question 23

Complete Viola’s quotation:

“She never told he love, but let (1) __________, like a worm i’th’bud, feed on her damask cheek.”

Answer 23

1) concealment

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

1) Exalted
2) Follows

Malvolio about Olivia

Question 25

Complete Malvolio’s quotation:

“I do not now (1)_____ myself, to let (2) __________ jade me.”

Answer 25

1) Fool

2) Imagination

Question 26

Complete Feste’s quotation:

“How quickly the (1) _______ side may be (2) _________ outward!”

Answer 26

1) Wrong

2) Turned

Question 27

What does Viola say about Feste and his wisdom?

Answer 27

“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”

Question 28

When Viola says that she pities Olivia, how does Olivia respond? What does her response say about feelings?

Answer 28

“That’s a degree to love.”

Olivia does not want to accept rejection from Viola.

Question 29

Complete Olivia’s quotation:

“Nor wit nor reason can my (1) ________ hide.”

Answer 29

1) Passion

Question 30

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.”

Answer 30

1) Guard

2) Tainted

Question 31

Complete the quotation:

“Nothing that can be can come (1) _______ me and the full (2) ________ of my hopes.”

Answer 31

1) Between

2) Prospect

Question 32

Complete Malvolio’s quotation:

“Go (1) ______ yourselves all. You are idle, shallow (2) _________; I am not of your element.”

Answer 32

1) Hang

2) Things

Question 33

Complete Sir Toby’s quotation:

“My niece is already in the belief that he’s (1) _____: we may carry it thus for our (2) _________.”

Answer 33

1) Mad

2) Pleasure

Question 34

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?

Answer 34

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.

Question 35

Complete Viola’s quotation:

“Pray God (1) _______ me! A little thing would make me tell them how much i lack of a (2) ____.”

Answer 35

1) Defend

2) Man

Question 36

Complete Sebastian’s quotation:

“What relish is this? How runs the stream? Or I am (1) _____, or else this is a (2) ________.”

Answer 36

1) Mad

2) Dream

Question 37

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?

Answer 37

• Disguise
• Deceit
• Madness
• Comedy

Question 38

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) _________.”

Answer 38

1) Wronged
2) Mad
3) Darkness

Question 39

Complete Feste’s comment to Malvolio:

“There is no (1) ________ but (2)__________.”- A4S2

Answer 39

1) Darkness

2) Ignorance

Question 40

Complete Malvolio’s quotation:

“Fool, there was never man so (1) ___________ abused! I am as well in my (2) _____, fool, as thou art.”

Answer 40

1) Notoriously

2) Wits

Question 41

Complete Orsino’s description of the twins:

“One face, one (1) _______, one habit, and two (2) ________!

Answer 41

1) Voice

2) Persons

Question 42

Complete Sebastian’s quotation to Olivia:

“You would have been (1) __________ to a (2) ______.

Answer 42

1) Contracted

2) Maid

Question 43

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) _______.

Answer 43

1) Master
2) Hand
3) Mistress

Question 44

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?”

Answer 44

1) Suffer’d
2) Dark
3) Geck and Gull