Twelfth Night -- Quotes Flashcards

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(Orsino) If music be the food of love…

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play on, give me excess of it…the appetite may sicken and so die

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(Orsino) O, when mine eyes…

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did see olivia first, methought she purged the air of pestilence

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3
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(Valentine) and water once a day her chamber round..

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with eye offending brine

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4
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(Viola) Conceal…

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me what I am, and be my aid

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5
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(Captain) your mute i’ll be..

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when my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see

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6
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(Maria) That quaffing…

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and drinking will undo you

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7
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(Sir Andrew) Good Mistress…

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Accost (sexual innuendos he doesn’t understand)

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8
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(sir Andrew) What is…

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pourquoi?

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9
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(Sir Toby) I hope to see…

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a huswife take thee between her legs and spin it off

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10
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(Orsino) Diana’s lip…

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Is not more smooth and rubious

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11
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(Orsino) Thy small pipe

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is as the maiden’s organ.. all is semblative of a woman’s part

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12
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(Viola) I’ll do my best to woo your lady…

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(aside) yet, a barful strife! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife

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13
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(Feste) Many a good…

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hanging prevents a bad marriage

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14
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(Olivia) O you are..

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Sick of self love malvolio

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15
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(Viola) You are the cruellest…

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she alive if you will lead these graces to the grave and leave the world no copy

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16
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(Olivia) What is your…

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parentage?

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17
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(Viola) Above my fortunes, yet my state is well…

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I am a gentleman

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18
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(Olivia) How now? even so…

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quickly may one catch the plague

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19
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(Sebastian) Mine stars…

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shine darkly over me

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20
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(Antonio) If you will not murder…

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me for my love, let me be your servant

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21
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(Antonio about sebastian) I do…

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adore thee so

22
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(Viola) I am..

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The man!

23
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(Viola) Poor lady…

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she were better love a dream

24
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(Viola) Disguise…

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I see thou art a wickedness

25
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(Maria)The devil…

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a puritan that he is

26
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(Maria) He thinks…

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that all that look on him love him

27
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(Viola replying to orsino about who she loves)

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“of your complexion”

“about your years, my lord”

28
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(Feste) now the melancholy…

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god protect the… thy mind is very opal

29
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(Viola) My father had…

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a daughter loved a man – as it might be perhaps were i a woman, i should your lordship

30
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(Viola) But let concealment…

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like a worm i’the bud, feed on her damask cheek

31
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(Viola) I am all the…

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daughters of my fathers house, and all the brothers too

32
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(Maria) My..

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Revenge (malvolio plot)

33
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(Malvolio) Foolish..

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knight (sir andrew)

34
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(Viola) This fellow is…

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wise enough to play the fool

35
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(Viola) Your servant’s…

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servant is your servant madam

36
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(Viola) Then you think right…

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I am not what I am

37
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Maria on malvolio’s cross garters.. Most…

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villainously

38
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(Malvolio/ Maria)Be not afraid

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of greatness, some are born great, others achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them

39
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(Olivia) Why this is..

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very midsummer madness

40
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(Malvolio) Nothing that can be…

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can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes

41
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(Fabian) if this were played…

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upon a stage now, i could condemn this as an improbable fiction

42
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(Viola) Pray god defend me…

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a little thing would make me tell them how much I lack of a man

43
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(Feste) Nothing that is..

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so is so

44
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(Malvolio) They have laid…

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me here in hideous darkness

45
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(Feste) Sayst thou…

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the house is dark? (As hell sir Topas)

46
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Feste: Windows as…

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transparent as barricadoes

47
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Malvolio: I say this house…

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is as dark as ignorance

48
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(Antonio) an apple cleft in two…

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is not more twin

49
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Orsino: boy thou has

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said to me a thousand times thou never shouldst love a woman like to me

50
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Orsino: Let me see…

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thee in thy woman’s weeds

51
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Malvolio: I’ll be…

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revenged on the whole pack of you