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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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| “I pray thee – and I’ll pay thee bounteously – Conceal me what I am |
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| “He’s a very fool, and a prodigal |
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| Maria to Sir Toby about Sir Andrew |
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| “the Count himself here hard by woos her” |
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| Sir Andrew to Sir Toby about Count Orsino (and Olivia) |
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| “Diana’s lip is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound, and all is semblative a woman’s part” |
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| Count Orsino to Viola, about how Cesario/Viola looks like a girl |
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| “Go to, you’re a dry fool. I’ll no more of you” |
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| “The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul, being in heaven. Take away the fool” |
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| “In nature there’s no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.” |
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Antonio to Ceasrio, who he thinks is Sebastian
The only flaws in nature are in a person’s mind and soul"
Upset that Cesario isn’t helping him as he’s being arrested |
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| “Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents” |
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Feste, to Maria
Some people are born wise; those of us who were meant to be fools should do what they do best |
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| “I have unclasp’d to thee the book even of my secret soul.” |
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| Orsino to Cesario, Orsino has told Cesario all about his love for Olivia and the pain it causes |
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| “Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better” |
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| Olivia to Viola, Olivia hints at her love of Cesario |
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| “journeys end in lovers meeting” |
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| Feste, during hsi song, with Sir Toby, Maria and Sir Andrew, when they were drunk at night. This was his sad love song |
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| “A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief” |
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| Cesario to Orsino. Cesario is telling the story of her fictional sister and how she died of grief |
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| "Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit" |
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| Feste, I’d rather be a smart low-class than a dumb upper-class |
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| “There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail” |
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| Olivia to Malvolio, about Feste |
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| “I am no more mad than you are. Make the trial of it in any constant question” |
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| Malvolio to Feste, who is dressed as Sir Topas the priest |
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| “If it be thus to dream, so let me sleep” |
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| Sebastian, to Olivia. Olivia thinks Sebastian is Cesario |
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| “I my brother know yet living in my glass. Even such and so in favour was my brother, and he went still in this fashion, colour, ornament, for him I imitate. O, if it prove, tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love” |
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| Cesario about her brother Sebastian. Maybe he is still alive? |
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| Antonio to Cesario, who he thinks is Sebastian. He think Sebastian has turned on him |
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| “If this young gentleman have done offence, I take the fault on me. If you offend him, I for him defy you” |
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| Antonio to Sir Andrew, defending who he thinks is Sebastian |
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| “I have dogged him like his murderer.” |
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| Maria to Sir Toby and Fabian, about Malvolio and how she dodged him so as to not give herself away |
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| “By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom and one truth, and that no woman has, nor never none shall mistress be of it save I alone” |
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| Cesario to Olivia, stating his womanly qualities |
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| “Then think you right, I am not what I am” |
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| “This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit” |
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| Viola about Feste, thinks that maybe he sees through her disguise |
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| “Even so quilcy may one catch the plague? Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections with an invisible and subtle stealth to creep in at mine eyes." |
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| Olivia, to herself, about her suddenly falling in love with Cesario |
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| “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” |
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| Malvolio, reading the fake Olivia letter that was really written by Maria |
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| “She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love” |
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| Cesario talking about his sister and how she died from loving so strongly |
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| “But mine is all as hungry as the sea” |
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| Orsino to Cesario, about his love of Olivia |
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| “There is no woman’s sides can bide the beating so strong a passion as love doth give my heart; no woman’s heart so big, to hold so much. They lack retention. Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt.” |
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| Orsino to Cesario, telling him that no woman could love as strongly as he does. |
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| “for women are as roses, whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.” |
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| Orsino to Cesario. Telling him not to fall in love with older women |
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| “the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him” |
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| Maria, about Malvolio and how conceited he is and how much he loves himself |
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| “O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.” |
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| Cesario, this is a problem only time will fix |
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| “our frailty is the cause, not we, for such as we are made of, such we be” |
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| Cesario, to himself, excusing women because it’s in their nature to fall in love so quickly and so blindly |
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| “she were better love a dream” |
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| Cesario, to himself, about Olivia loving him |
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