Twelfth Night

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Disguise and deceit

QUOTE CHARACTER ACT/SCENE
“nature with a beauteous wall / Doth oft close in pollution” Viola Act 1 Scene 2
“Conceal me what I am... What else may hap, to time I will commit” Viola Act 1 Scene 2
“I’ll do my best / To woo your lady. Yet a bagful strife! Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.” Viola Act 1 Scene 4
“Speak to me; I shall answer for her [the honourable lady of the house]” Olivia Act 1 Scene 5
“by the very fangs of malice, I swear, I am not that I play. Are you the lady of the house?” Viola Act 1 Scene 5
“’tis poetical” (Viola), “It is the more like to be feigned” Olivia Act 1 Scene 5
“Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face? You are now out of your text, but we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.” Olivia Act 1 Scene 5
“I see you what you are. You are too proud; / But if you were the devil you are fair!” Viola Act 1 Scene 5
“I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in. Therefore it charges me in manners the rather to express myself. You must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian (which I called Roderigo)” Sebastian Act 2 Scene 1
“I left no ring with her: what means this lady? / Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her!... I am the man... Poor lady, she were better love a dream.” Viola Act 2 Scene 2
“Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness” Viola Act 2 Scene 2
“If I do not gull [Malvolio] into a ayword, and make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed.” Maria Act 2 Scene 3
“I am all the daughters of my father’s house, And all the brothers too” Viola Act 2 Scene 4
“[Olivia’s] very phrases! By your leave, wax. Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: ‘tis my lady.” Malvolio Act 2 Scene 5
“I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me.” Malvolio Act 2 Scene 5
“I am not what I am” Viola Act 3 Scene 1
“O how vile an idol proves this god! // Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame. // In nature there’s no blemish but the mind; //None can be call’d deform’d but the unkind:” Antonio Act 3 Scene 4
“Nothing that is so is so.” Feste Act 4 Scene 1
“Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate” (Maria) “I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown.” Feste Act 4 Scene 2
“That that is, is” Feste Act 4 Scene 2
“This is the air; that is the glorious sun, / This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t and see’t, / And though ‘tis wonder that enwraps me thus, / Yet ‘tis not madness... I am ready to distrust mine eyes / And wrangle with my reason... there’s something in’t / That is deceiveable.” Sebastian Act 4 Scene 3
“O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be / When time hath sow’d a grizzle on thy case? / Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow, / That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?” Orsino Act 5 Scene 1
“One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons, A natural perspective, that is and is not!” Orsino Act 5 Scene 1
“How have you made division of yourself? / An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin / Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?” Antonio Act 5 Scene 1
“I am Viola, which to confirm, / I’ll bring you to a captain in this town... by whose gentle help I was preserved” Viola Act 5 Scene 1

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