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Famous Quotations from Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is packed with common expressions and famous lines. Here are the most memorable of them all. Please click on the links for full explanatory notes.

1.
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it.
(1.1.1), Duke Orsino

2.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
(2.5.130), Malvolio

3.
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.
(2.3.158), Maria

4.
Out of the jaws of death.
(3.4.340), Antonio



5.
This is very midsummer madness.
(3.4.53), Olivia

6.
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
(2.3.39), Feste

7.
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
(5.1.384), Malvolio

8.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
(1.5.32), Feste

9.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
(4.2.41), Feste

10.
I was adored once too.
(2.3.171), Sir Andrew

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From Twelfth Night. Illus. W. Heath Robinson. 1900 by Musson Book Co.


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