William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool."
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"Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"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, Twelfth Night
"Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"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, Twelfth Night
"Some are born great, others achieve greatness."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"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, Twelfth Night
"Journeys end in lovers meeting."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"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, Twelfth Night
"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, Twelfth Night
"I'll follow this good man, and go with you;And, having sworn truth, ever will be true."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"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, Twelfth 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."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"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, 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."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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