Twelfth Night, Sir.Toby Character and Critic Quotes Flashcards
“I’m sure care’s…”
“an enemy to life”
-Sir Toby Act 1, Scene 3
“They that add, moreover, he’s …”
“drunk nightly in your company.”
- Maria Act 1, Scene 3
“I hate it as an…”
“unfilled can.”
- Sir. Toby Act 2, Scene 3
“Art thou anymore than a steward?…”
“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?” - Sir. Toby Act 2, Scene 3
“I’ll drink to her as long as…”
“there is passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria.”
- Sir Toby Act 1, Scene 3
“His eyes were set at…”
“eight i’th morning”
- Feste, Act 5, Scene 1
“There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man’s commendation with women…”
“than report of valour.”
- Sir Toby, Act 3, Scene 2
“Merry! I’ll ride your horses…”
“as well as I ride you.”
- Sir Toby Act 3, Scene 4
“I would we were well rid of this knavery…”
“… for I am now so far in offence with my niece that I cannot persue with any safety this sport to the upshot.”
- Sir Toby Act 4, Scene 2
“Then he’s a rogue, and a passy-measures pavan…”
“I hate a drunken rogue.”
- Sir Toby Act 5, Scene 1
“Will you help? An ass-head and a coxcomb…”
“and a thin-faced knave, a gull?”
- Sir.Toby Act 5, Scene 1
“Maria writ the letter, at Sir.Toby’s great importance…”
“in recompense, whereof he hath married her. How with sportful malice it was followed.”
- Fabian Act 5, Scene 1
“Gulling shows itself to be a reversible game since…”
“Sir Toby himself is gulled most effectively by Maria.”
- Hurworth
“With its dramatisation of the antagonism between hedonistic, alcoholic and gluttonous sir Toby Belch…”
“and the puritanical steward who longs to discipline him, it is also very much a play about the social implications of festivity”
- Micheal Dobson
“He lives at his ease, enjoying heritage…”
“celebrates what he has without having to deserve it”
- C.L Barber
