Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
VIOLA And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors? (1.2.2)
ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. (1.1.1)
CAPTAIN Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be: When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. (1.2.10)
ORSINO Stand you a while aloof, "Cesario", Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd To thee the book even of my secret soul: Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her; (1.4.2)
VIOLA O that I served that lady And might not be delivered to the world, Till I had made mine own occasion mellow, What my estate is! (1.2.9)
MARIA Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. SIR TOBY BELCH Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am: these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be the...
VIOLA There is a fair behavior in thee, captain; And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee I will believe thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair...
VALENTINE So please my lord, I might not be admitted; But from her handmaid do return this answer: The element itself, till seven years' heat, Shall not behold her face at ample view; But, like a c...
