Twelfth Night Quotes

If music be the food of love, play on. – Duke Orsino

Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness. – Viola

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. – Malvolio

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? – Sir Toby Belch

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. – Malvolio

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – Olivia

I am all the daughters of my father’s house, and all the brothers too. – Viola

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. – Sir Toby Belch

The course of true love never did run smooth. – Duke Orsino

O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip! – Viola

This life is a cunning rascal. – Feste

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. – Sir Toby Belch

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. – Feste

I am not what I am. – Viola

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. – Feste

For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, after the moon. – Duke Orsino

Make me a willow cabin at your gate. – Viola

I am sure care’s an enemy to life. – Sir Toby Belch

She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm ‘i the bud, feed on her damask cheek. – Duke Orsino

Twelfth Night Quotes part 2

Mislike me not for my complexion. – Viola

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things… nose-painting, sleep, and urine. – Sir Andrew Aguecheek

I can no other answer make but, thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks. – Viola

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of nature. – Malvolio

For such as I am, all true lovers are, unsteadfast and disloyal in wedlock’s vows. – Duke Orsino

But that’s all one, our play is done, and we’ll strive to please you every day. – Feste

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. – Duke Orsino

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever. – Feste

Where shall we go to-morrow, child? – Olivia

In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – Malvolio

He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and on carpet consideration. – Sir Toby Belch

Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty. – Duke Orsino

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. – Feste

That in your bright radiance and collateral light may vouchsafe to wander. – Duke Orsino

My masters, are you mad? – Feste

Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much desires to speak with you. – Malvolio

I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you! – Malvolio

This youth that you see here I snatched one half out of the jaws of death. – Sebastian

For such as we are made of, such we be. – Duke Orsino

By my troth, I’ll go with thee. – Sir Toby Belch

A plague on’t when thieves cannot be true one to another. – Feste

If it be aught to the old tune, my lord, it is as fat and fulsome to mine ear as howling after music. – Malvolio

But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk, and water once a day her chamber round with eye offending brine. – Sir Toby Belch

What’s to come is still unsure. – Viola

I have unclasp’d to thee the book even of my secret soul. – Olivia

She sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. – Viola