Twelfth Night Quotes

Quote 1: "O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, methought she purg'd the air of pestilence...and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, e'er since pursue me." Act 1, Scene 1, line 20

Quote 2: "What else may hap, to time I will commit; only shape thou thy silence to my wit." Act 1, Scene 2, line 64

Quote 3: "I'll confine myself no finer than I am." Act 1, Scene 3, line 10

Quote 4: "Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has." Act 1, Scene 3, line 82

Quote 5: "Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife." Act 1, Scene 4, line 42

Quote 6: "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and for turning away, let summer bear it out." Act 1, Scene 5, line 19

Quote 7: "Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady." Act 1, Scene 5, line 37

Quote 8: "Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool." Act 1, Scene 5, line 74

Quote 9: "The fool shall look after the madman." Act 1, Scene 5, line 139

Quote 10: "How now? Even so quickly may one catch the plague?" Act 1, Scene 5, line 298

Quote 11: "I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis, poor lady, she were better love a dream." Act 2, Scene 2, line 25

Quote 12: "I know not: but I know, to be up late, is to be up late." Act 2, Scene 3, line 3

Quote 13: "I shall never begin if I hold my peace." Act 2, Scene 3, line 69

Quote 14: "Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Act 2, Scene 3, line 115

Quote 15: "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." Act 2, Scene 4, line 16

Quote 16: "make no compare between that love a woman can bear me and that I owe Olivia." Act 2, Scene 4, line 103

Quote 17: "Now is the woodcock near the gin" Act 2, Scene 5, line 84

Quote 18: "Jove knows I love; but who? Lips, do not move, No man must know." Act 2, Scene 5, line 98

Quote 19: "I could marry this wench [Maria] for this device."Act 2, Scene 5, line 182

Quote 20: "I do live by the church, for I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church." Act 3, Scene 1, line 5

Quote 21: "This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well, craves a kind of wit..." Act 3, Scene 1, line 61

Quote 22: "You do think you are not what you are." Act 3, Scene 1, line 141

Quote 23: "Why, this is very midsummer madness." Act 3, Scene 4, line 55

Quote 24: "Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow." Act 3, Scene 4, line 149

Quote 25: "This will so fright them both that they will kill each other by the look." Act 3, Scene 4, line 196

Quote 26: "I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you." Act 3, Scene 4, line 295

Quote 27: "I am as well in my wits, fool as thou art." Act 4, Scene 2, line 91

Quote 28: "no: though it please you to be one of my friends." Act 5, Scene 1, line 24

Quote 29: "And I...to do you rest, a thousand deaths would die." Act 5, Scene 1, line 130

Quote 30: "Since you called me master for so long, here is my hand; you shall from this time be your master's mistress." Act 5, Scene 1, line 322

Quote 31: "A great while ago the world begun, with hey, ho, the wind and the rain, but that's all one, our play is done, and we'll strive to please you every day." Act 5, Scene 1, line 403