Quotes from Twelfth Night
24 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1601
If music be the food of love, play on.
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Orsino, opening line, Act I, scene 1 Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Malvolio (reading), Twelfth Night Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Malvolio, reading Maria's forged letter, Act II, scene 5 Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Malvolio, reading Maria's forged letter, Act II, scene 5 I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!
Malvolio, Twelfth Night I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
Malvolio, exit line, Act V, scene 1 Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Sir Toby Belch to Malvolio, Act II, scene 3 And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
Feste, Act V, scene 1 Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
Viola (as Cesario) to Olivia, Act I, scene 5 She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Viola (as Cesario), Act II, scene 4 I am not what I am.
Viola (as Cesario) to Olivia, Act III, scene 1 O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low.
Feste's song, Act II, scene 3 Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Feste, Act I, scene 5 I was adored once too.
Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Act II, scene 3 Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Feste's song, Act II, scene 3 If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Fabian, Act III, scene 4 What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure.
Feste's song, Act II, scene 3 Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines every where.
Feste, Act III, scene 1 Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Olivia to Viola (as Cesario), Act III, scene 1 Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Feste, Act I, scene 5 Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
Olivia, Act I, scene 5 Not to be abed after midnight is to be up betimes.
Sir Toby Belch, Act II, scene 3 When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
Feste's closing song, Act V, scene 1