Twelfth Night

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 QUOTE CHARACTER ACT/SCENE 
“My lady takes great exception to your ill hours... you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.” Maria Act 1 Scene 3
“My lady will hang thee for thy absence.” Maria Act 1 Scene 5
“What think you of this fool, Malvolio? Doth he not mend?” Olivia Act 1 Scene 5
“I marvel your lady takes delight in such a barren rascal.” Malvolio Act 1 Scene 5
“There is no slander in an allowed fool though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man though he do nothing but reprove.” Olivia Act 1 Scene 5
“And the fool shall look to the madman” Feste Act 1 Scene 5
“O time, thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.” Viola Act 2 Scene 2
“To be up after midnight and go to bed then is early; so that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes.” Sir Toby Act 2 Scene 2
“My masters, are you mad?... Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?” Malvolio Act 2 Scene 3
"Dost thou think that because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?” Sir Toby Act 2 Scene 3
“Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady’s favour at anything more than contempt, you would not give means for this uncivil rule” Malvolio Act 2 Scene 3
“The devil a puritan that [Malvolio] is... a time-pleaser, an affectioned ass, that cons state without book... [and thinks] that all that look on him love him.” Maria Act 2 Scene 3
“Pleasure will be paid, one time or another.” Feste Act 2 Scene 4
“Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity” Malvolio Act 2 Scene 5
“Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.” Feste Act 3 Scene 1
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines every where.” Feste Act 3 Scene 1
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool” Viola Act 3 Scene 1
“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” Olivia Act 3 Scene 4
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” Fabian Act 3 Scene 4
“Why, we shall make him mad indeed.” Fabian Act 3 Scene 4
“There’s something in me that reproves my fault; But such a headstrong potent fault it is, That it but mocks reproof.” Olivia Act 3 Scene 4
“Are all the people mad?” Sebastain Act 4 Scene 1
“Never was man thus wronged: good Sir Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me here in hideous darkness.” Malvolio Act 4 Scene 2
“Now go with me and with this holy man... And underneath that consecrated roof, / Plight me the full assurance of your faith”  Oliva  Act 4 Scene 3
“A contract of eternal bond of love”  Priest  Act 5 Scene 1
“I hate a drunken rogue... an ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull”  Sir Toby  Act 5 Scene 1 
“So it comes, lady, you have been mistook. But nature to her bias drew in that. You would have been contracted to a maid”  Sebastian  Act 5 Scene 1 
“Your master quits you; and for your service done him, / So much against the mettle of your sex, / So far below your soft and tender breeding... you shall from this time be / Your mater’s mistress.”  Orsino  Act 5 Scene 1 
“Maria writ / The letter... In recompense whereof [Sir Toby] hath married her”  Fabian  Act 5 Scene 1 
“And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”  Feste  Act 5 Scene 1 
“I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you!”  Malvolio  Act 5 Scene 1 
“A great while ago the world begun, / With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, / But that’s all one, our play is done, / And we’ll strive to please you every day.”  Feste  Act 5 Scene 1 

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