Quotes From "Twelfth Night" By William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.
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If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
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Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. William Shakespeare
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth...
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Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on, Give...
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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. William Shakespeare
Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best	 	 To woo...
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Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.'[ Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife. William Shakespeare
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Clown: Good Madonna, why mournest thou? Olivia: Good Fool, for my brother's death. Clown: I think his soul is in hell, Madonna.Olivia:I know his soul is in heaven, Fool.Clown: The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven. William Shakespeare
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This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit. William Shakespeare
I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my...
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I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul. William Shakespeare
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I'll follow this good man, and go with you; And, having sworn truth, ever will be true. William Shakespeare
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Now go with me and with this holy man Into the chantry by: there, before him, And underneath that consecrated roof, Plight me the full assurance of your faith. William Shakespeare
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Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. William Shakespeare
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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare
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Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain. William Shakespeare
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Journeys end in lovers meeting. William Shakespeare
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Orsino: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are....For women are as roses, whose fair flow'r Being once display'd doth fall that very hour. Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so! To die, even when they to perfection grow! William Shakespeare
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Some are born great, others achieve greatness. William Shakespeare
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Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. William Shakespeare
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I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part. William Shakespeare
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He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. William Shakespeare
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Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness, / Wherein the...enemy does much. William Shakespeare
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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; Hallo your name to the reverberate hills And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out "Olivia! " O, you should not rest Between the elements of air and earth But you should pity me William Shakespeare
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Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool. William Shakespeare