Twelfth Night
40 quotes
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"I am sure care's an enemy to life."
"I have them at my fingers' ends."
"Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before 'em?"
"Is it a world to hide virtues in?"
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage..."
"We will draw the curtain, and show you the picture."
"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
"Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?"
"My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour."
"These most brisk and giddy-paced times."
"An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you."
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun; it shines everywhere."
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
"Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter."
"I think we do know the sweet Roman hand."
"Why, this is very midsummer madness."
"Put thyself into the trick of singularity."
"What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he's an enemy to mankind."
"’T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan."
"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
"More matter for a May morning."
"Still, you keep o’ the windy side of the law."
"An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld have challenged him."
"Out of the jaws of death."