Twelfth Night

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“If music be the food of love, play on, / Give me excess of it that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die.”

Orsino

Act 1 Scene 1

“Enough, no more, / ‘Tis not so sweet now as it was before.”

Orsino

Act 1 Scene 1

“O spirit of love... as the sea, naught enters there

/ Of what validity and pitch so e’er, / But falls into abatement and low price”

Orsino

Act 1 Scene 1

“So full of shapes is fancy / That it alone is high fantastical.”

Orsino

Act 1 Scene 1

“How will she love, when the rich golden shaft / Hath killed the flock of all affections else... [when] These sovereign thrones are all supplied and filled

/ Her sweet perfections with one selfsame king!”

Orsino

Act 1 Scene 1

“Thou know’t no less than all: I have unclasped / To thee the book even of my secret soul.”

Orsino

Act 1 Scene 4

“If Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a piece of Eve’s flesh as any in Illyria.”

Feste

Act 1 Scene 5

“In [Orsino’s] bosom?... I have read it. It is heresy.”

Olivia

Act 1 Scene 5

“[Orsino is] virtuous... noble, / Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth... free, learned, and valiant... A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him.”

Olivia

Act 1 Scene 5

“Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit

/ Do give thee five-fold blazon... Even so quickly may one catch the plague? / Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections”

Olivia

Act 1 Scene 5

“She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.”

Sebastian

Act 2 Scene 1

“I have many enemies in Orsino’s court... [But] I do adore [Sebastian] so / That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.”

Antonio

Act 2 Scene 1

“Would you have a love song or a song of good life?”

Feste

Act 2 Scene 3

“Journeys end in lovers meeting... What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter... What’s to come is still unsure... come and kiss me, sweet and twenty; / Youth’s a stuff will not endure.”

Feste

Act 2 Scene 3

“If ever thou shalt love, / In the sweet pangs of it, remember me: / For such as I am, all true lovers are, / Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, / Save in the constant image of the creature / That is beloved.”

Orsino

Act 2 Scene 4

“I pity you” (Viola), “That’s a degree to love.”

(Olivia), “No... very oft we pity enemies.”

Viola

Act 3 Scene 1

“Love sought is good, but given unsought better.”

Olivia

Act 3 Scene 1

“My desire, / More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth”

Antonio

Act 3 Scene 3

“How shall I feast him? what bestow of him? // For youth is bought more oft than begg’d or borrow’d.”

Olivia

Act 3 Scene 3

“Put up your sword. If this young gentleman / Have done offence, I take the fault on me: / If you offend him, I for him defy you... [I am] One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more / Than you have heard him brag to you he will.”

Antonio

Act 3 Scene 4

“A witchcraft drew me hither. / That most ingrateful boy there by your side... His life I gave him and did thereto add / My love, without retention or restraint, / All his in dedication; for his sake / Did I expose myself, pure for his love...

Where being apprehended, his false cunning... Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance / And grew a twenty years removed thing”

Antonio

Act 5 Scene 1

“You uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars / My soul the faithfull’st off’rings have breathed out / That e’er devotion tendered!”

Orsino

Act 5 Scene 1

“I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love [Cesario] // To spite a raven’s heart within a dove.”

Orsino

Act 5 Scene 1

“And I, most jocund, apt and willingly, / To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die... After him I love / More than I love these eyes, more than my life”

Viola

Act 5 Scene 1

“Were you a woman – as the rest goes even – / I should my tears let fall upon your cheek, / And say ‘Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola.’”

Sebastian

Act 5 Scene 1

“Cesario, come – / For so you shall be, while you are a man, / But when in other habits you are seen, / Orsino’s mistress and his fancy’s queen.”

Orsino

Act 5 Scene 1