| “I have many enemies in Orsino’s court, / Else would I very shortly see thee there. / But come what may, I o adore thee so / That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.” | antonio (to himself)Antonio wants to follow Sebastian to Orsino’s court because he loves him. His love is so powerful that he follows Sebastian even though he may be arrested there because he has many enemies. |
| “My master loves her dearly, / And I, poor monster, fond as much on him, / And she, mistaken, seem to dote on me.” | Viola (to herself)Viola realizes Olivia is in love with Cesario/her |
| “I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of / love, … he shall find himself / most feelingly personated. I can write very like my / lady your niece;” | Maria to Toby (and Andrew) Maria, Toby, and Andrew planing to play a prank on Malvolio by giving him a love letter from “Olivia,” but Maria actually wrote it. |
| “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” | Toby to FoolMaria, Toby, and Andrew planing to play a prank on Malvolio by giving him a love letter from “Olivia,” but Maria actually wrote it. |
| “Why, thou hast put him in such a dream that / when the image of it leaves him he must run mad.” | Toby to Maria and Andrew |
| “I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this Troilus.” | Fool to Viola |
| “For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall’n, quite taint their wit” | Viola (talking about the fool) |
| A: “I pity you.” B: “That’s a degree to love.” A: “That very oft we pity enemies.” | A. Viola B. Olivia |
| A. you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt either of valor or policy.” B: “Can’t be any way, it must be with valor, for policy I hate. I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician.” | A: Fabian, B: Andrew |
| “He does smile his face into more likes than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies.” | maria |
| “What we took from them, which, for traffic’s sake, most of our city did. Only myself stood out, for which, if I lapsed in this place, I shall pay dear.” | antonio |
| “I am as mad as he, if sad and merry madness equal be.” | olivia (talking about malvolio) |
| A: “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” B: His genius hath taken the infection of the device, man.” | A: Fabian, B: Toby |
| “Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch, fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne’er were preached! Out of my sight!” | Olivia to Toby |
| “What relish is this? How runs the stream? Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!” | Sebastian to the audience, but speaking of Olivia’s love confession to him (she thinks that Sebastian is Cesario) |
| “Good Fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and paper. As I am gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee for’t” | Malvolio to Fool (as Sir Topas) |
| “What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl?” | Fool (as Priest) to Malvolio |
| “I’ll follow this good man and go with you and, having sworn truth, ever will be true.” | Sebastian (believed to be Cesario) to Olivia |
| A: “Truly sir, the better for my foes and the worse for my friends.” (5.1.10) Page 161B: “Still so cruel?” Olivia: “Still so constant, lord.” | A. Fool B. Orsino |
| “… I’ll sacrifice a lamb that I do love/ To spite a raven’s heart within a dove.” | Orsino to viola |
| “After him I love/ More than I love these eyes, more than my life,/ More by all mores than e’er I shall love my wife./ If I do feign, you witness above,/ Punish my life for tainting of my love.” | Viola (about Orsino) |
| “Your master quits you; and for your service done him,/ So much against the mettle of your sex, / So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,/ And since you called me “master” for so long,/ Here is my hand. You shall from this time be/ Your master’s mistress.” | Orsino to Viola |
| “So comes it lady, you have been mistook./ But nature to her bias drew in that./ You would have been contracted to a maid./ Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived:/ You are betrothed to a maid and man.” | Sebastian to olivia |
| “Why, ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown up on them.'” | fool |
| “Why, ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown up on them.'” | malvolio (reading the letter) |
| “One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!/ A natural perspective, that is and is not! | Orsino |
Twelfth night quote quilt
July 16, 2019