Quotes from work

Twelfth Night

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

“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

“Be not afraid of greatness.”

“Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."
Viola: "Thy reason, man?"
Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.”

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”

“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”

“In nature there's no blemish but the mind.
None can be called deformed but the unkind.”

“I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.”

“How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”

“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”

“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”