Twelfth Night -- Quotes Flashcards
(Orsino) If music be the food of love…
play on, give me excess of it…the appetite may sicken and so die
(Orsino) O, when mine eyes…
did see olivia first, methought she purged the air of pestilence
(Valentine) and water once a day her chamber round..
with eye offending brine
(Viola) Conceal…
me what I am, and be my aid
(Captain) your mute i’ll be..
when my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see
(Maria) That quaffing…
and drinking will undo you
(Sir Andrew) Good Mistress…
Accost (sexual innuendos he doesn’t understand)
(sir Andrew) What is…
pourquoi?
(Sir Toby) I hope to see…
a huswife take thee between her legs and spin it off
(Orsino) Diana’s lip…
Is not more smooth and rubious
(Orsino) Thy small pipe
is as the maiden’s organ.. all is semblative of a woman’s part
(Viola) I’ll do my best to woo your lady…
(aside) yet, a barful strife! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife
(Feste) Many a good…
hanging prevents a bad marriage
(Olivia) O you are..
Sick of self love malvolio
(Viola) You are the cruellest…
she alive if you will lead these graces to the grave and leave the world no copy
(Olivia) What is your…
parentage?
(Viola) Above my fortunes, yet my state is well…
I am a gentleman
(Olivia) How now? even so…
quickly may one catch the plague
(Sebastian) Mine stars…
shine darkly over me
(Antonio) If you will not murder…
me for my love, let me be your servant
(Antonio about sebastian) I do…
adore thee so
(Viola) I am..
The man!
(Viola) Poor lady…
she were better love a dream
(Viola) Disguise…
I see thou art a wickedness
(Maria)The devil…
a puritan that he is
(Maria) He thinks…
that all that look on him love him
(Viola replying to orsino about who she loves)
“of your complexion”
“about your years, my lord”
(Feste) now the melancholy…
god protect the… thy mind is very opal
(Viola) My father had…
a daughter loved a man – as it might be perhaps were i a woman, i should your lordship
(Viola) But let concealment…
like a worm i’the bud, feed on her damask cheek
(Viola) I am all the…
daughters of my fathers house, and all the brothers too
(Maria) My..
Revenge (malvolio plot)
(Malvolio) Foolish..
knight (sir andrew)
(Viola) This fellow is…
wise enough to play the fool
(Viola) Your servant’s…
servant is your servant madam
(Viola) Then you think right…
I am not what I am
Maria on malvolio’s cross garters.. Most…
villainously
(Malvolio/ Maria)Be not afraid
of greatness, some are born great, others achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them
(Olivia) Why this is..
very midsummer madness
(Malvolio) Nothing that can be…
can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes
(Fabian) if this were played…
upon a stage now, i could condemn this as an improbable fiction
(Viola) Pray god defend me…
a little thing would make me tell them how much I lack of a man
(Feste) Nothing that is..
so is so
(Malvolio) They have laid…
me here in hideous darkness
(Feste) Sayst thou…
the house is dark? (As hell sir Topas)
Feste: Windows as…
transparent as barricadoes
Malvolio: I say this house…
is as dark as ignorance
(Antonio) an apple cleft in two…
is not more twin
Orsino: boy thou has
said to me a thousand times thou never shouldst love a woman like to me
Orsino: Let me see…
thee in thy woman’s weeds
Malvolio: I’ll be…
revenged on the whole pack of you
