Quotes from Twelfth Night

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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."

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- **Location:** Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1-3 - **Speaker:** Duke Orsino - **Topic:** Music, Melancholy & Mourning / Love & Desire

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O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite.

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- **Location:** Act 1, Scene 5, lines 86–87 - **Speaker:** Olivia - **Topic:** Madness & Folly

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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.

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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.

Front

O time! thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me to untie!

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- **Location:** Act 2, Scene 2, lines 40-41 - **Speaker:** Viola - **Topic:** Appearance vs. Reality

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"She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek."

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"Location: Act 2, Scene 4, lines 110-112; Speaker: Viola (as Cesario); Topic: Love & Desire / Music, Melancholy & Mourning"

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"She pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief."

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"Location: Act 2, Scene 4, lines 111-114; Speaker: Viola (as Cesario); Topic: Love & Desire / Music, Melancholy & Mourning"

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"I am not what I am."

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- **Location:** Act 3, Scene 1, line 141 - **Speaker:** Viola (as Cesario) - **Topic:** Appearance vs. Reality / Gender & Disguise

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Yet living in my glass; even such and so In favor was my brother, and he went Still in this fashion, color, ornament, For him I imitate.

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- **Location:** Act 3, Scene 4, lines 379-382 - **Speaker:** Viola - **Topic:** Twins & Doubling / Gender & Disguise

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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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Act 3, Scene 4, line 127

Front

That that is is.

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Act 4, Scene 2, line 14