| “If music be the food of love, play on;” | Duke Orsino at the beginning of the play. he’s listening to music as he thinks of Olivia |
| “O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame to pay its debt of love but to a brother…” | Orsino to Valentine when he receives the message that Olivia will mourn for seven years |
| “Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise…thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him” | Viola to the Sea Captain regarding her disguise as Orsino’s servant Cesario |
| ” be his eunuch and your mute I’ll be “ | Sea captain to Viola going to help with her disguise |
| “You mistake, knight; ‘accost’ is in front of her, board her, woo her, assail her” | Sir Toby to Sir Andrew as he encourages Andrew to introduce himself to Maria |
| “Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. but I’m a great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit” | Sir Andrew to Sir Toby and Maria discussing his forgetfulness |
| “I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul” | Duke Orsino to Viola/Cesario meaning he has explained to Cesario how much he loves Olivia; he has shared all the secrets with Cesario |
| “Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.” | Viola in aside; she must woo Olivia for Orsino but wants to marry him herself |
| “by my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o’ nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours” | Maria to Sir Toby about his partying and drinking |
| “better a witty fool than a foolish wit” | Clown/Feste to Olivia as he proves her a fool for grieving too long over her brother |
| ” He is very well-favored, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother’s milk were scarce out of him” | Malvolio to Olivia regarding Cesario who has come to deliver Orsino’s message |
| “Excellently done, if God did all” | Viola/Cesario to Olivia regarding to how pretty Olivia is when she removes her veil. |
| “I cannot love him. Yet I suppose virtuous, know him noble, of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth…” | Olivia to Viola/Cesario when Cesario brings Orsino’s message of love |
| “… yet thus for I will boldly publish her: she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair.” | Sebastian to Antonio about Viola |
| “If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.” | Antonio to Sebastian as he requests to serve Sebastian |
| ” Poor lady, she were better lave a dream. Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness wherein the pregnant enemy does much” | Viola is aside; she speaks of Olivia and how being in disguise has caused more harm than help. |
| “… so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all look on him love him… I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love…” | Maria to Toby and Andrew as she begins her plan to trick Malvolio |
| ” There is no woman’s sides can bide the beating of so strong a passion as love doth give my heart; no woman’s heart so big, to hold so much…” | Orsino in discussion with Viola/Cesario about men being better at love than then woman |
| “We men may say more, swear more, but indeed our shows are more then will; for still we prove much in our vows but little in our love” | Viola/Cesario to Orsino meaning that men may talk much about being at love, but don’t really prove it by what they do |
| “Cesario, by the roses of spring, by maidenhood, honor, truth, and everything, I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, nor reason can my passion hide” | Olivia to Viola/Cesario confessing her love |
| “By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, and that no woman has, nor never non shall mistress be of it, save I alone” | Viola/Cesario’s response to Olivia; she cannot love Olivia |
| “I could not stay behind you … but jealousy what might befall your travel, being skill-less in these parts… unguided and unfriended, often prove rough and inhospitable.” | Antonio to Sebastian as he follows him into town to try to help and protect him |
| “Come, we’ll have him in a dark room and bound. My niece is already in the belief that he’s mad .” | Toby to Maria as the last part of the trick against Malvolio |
| ” Prove true, imagination, O, prove true, that I, dear brother, be now ta’en for you!” | Viola in aside; after Antonio accuses her of not knowing him, she realizes he thinks she is Sebastian |
| “…’tis I wonder that enwraps me thus, yet ’tis not madness… I am mad- or else the lady’s mad… there’s something in ‘t that is deceivable” | Sebastian in aside as he tries to understand why Olivia is professing love for him and wants to marry him |
| “Now go with me and this holy man into the chantry by… plight me in full assurance of your faith” | Olivia to Sabastian asking him to marry her |
| “I’ll follow this good man and go with you and, having sworn truth, ever will be true” | Sebastian agrees to marry Olivia and promises to be faithful |
| “Why, there’s for thee, and there, and there. Are all people mad?” | Sebastian fights with Sir Andrew who thinks he is Cesario |
| “I’ll have an action of battery against him, if there is any law in Illyria” | Sir Andrew to Sir Toby after his fight with Sebastian |
| ” I say there is no darkness but ignorance” | Clown/Feste dressed as Sir Topas as he visits Malvolio imprisoned in the dark room |
| ” and that a partly know the instrument that screws me from my true place in your favor … but this your minion, whom I know you love, and whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly, him will I tear out of that cruel eye…” | Orsino to Olivia after discovering that Olivia loves Cesario |
| ” After him I love more than I love eyes, more than my life, more by all mores than e’er I shall love wife” | Viola/Cesario answers Olivia following Orsino even though he would do her harm |
| ” O thou dissembling cub! What wilt thou be when time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?” | Orsino scolds Viola/ Cesario because he feels Cesario has lied about wooing Olivia. Orsino feels Cesario will be an even bigger liar as he gets old enough to grow a beard |
| “I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman, but it been the brother of my blood, I must have done no less with wit and safety” | Sebastian apologizing to Olivia for fighting with Sir Toby |
| “One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons! A natural perspective, that is and is not!” | Orsino scolds to all assembled as he sees Sebastian and Viola/Cesario in the same place |
| “Boy, thou has said to me a thousand times thou never shouldst love women like me” | Orsino to Viola, teasing her about being a “boy” but wanting to know she truly loves him |
| “And all those sayings will I overswear, and all those swearings keep true in soul as doth that orded continent the fire that servers day from night” | Viola to Orsino swearing her love is as true as the sun |
| ” I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you!” | Malvolio to the crowd as he leaves angry because they made a fool of him. |
Twelfth Night
July 14, 2019