SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Twelfth Night

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

Orsino, Duke of Illyria: If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken and so die.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 1, pg. 1  

Toby Belch: He plays o' the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, pg. 2  

Orsino Duke of Illyria: Be not denied access, stand at her doors, and tell them there that fixed foot shall grow Til thou have audience.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, pg. 4  

Olivia: I heard you were saucy at my gates, and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief;
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 5, pg. 6  

Malvolio: My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to grabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an alehouse of my lady's house, that you squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you?
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 3, pg. 9  

Maria: Go shake your ears.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 3, pg. 9  

Malvolio: [reads]  ...but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 5, pg. 13  

Clown: A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the wrong side mat be turned outward!

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, pg. 14  

Clown: and words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, pg. 14  

Olivia: O, world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

If one should be a prey, how much the better to fall before the lion than the wolf!
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, pg. 15  

Sebastian: If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 4, Scene 1, pg. 22  

Sebastian: I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman; but had it been the brother of my blood, I must have done no less with with and safety.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, pg. 26  

Orsino Duke of Illyria: One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons, a natural perspective, that is and is not.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, pg. 26  

Antonio: How have you made division of yourself? An apple cleft in two, is not more twin than these two creatures.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, pg. 26