Twelfth Night Character Quotes - A2 Literature

• Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive.

• And make the babbling gossip of the air cry out 'Olivia!‘

She pined in thought, and with a green and yellow melancholy.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

• What is love? Tis not hereafter; present mirth hath present laughter.

•  Thy mind is a very opal.

One would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

• Now is the woodcock near the gin.

• I may command where I adore.

• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

• Go hang yourselves all! You are idle shallow things; I am not of your element.

• Why have you suffered me to be imprisoned

• I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.

• I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

• I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues, that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting.

• O world! how apt the poor are to be proud.

• Why, this is very midsummer madness.

• If music be the food of love, play on.

• That it alone is high fantastical.

• Thy small pipe is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound.

Let still the woman take an elder than herself.

Give me thy hand and let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.