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Twelfth Night

Quotes from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

By Simran Khurana, About.com

In the play Twelfth Night, Shakespeare employs the usual mechanisms of a Shakespeare comedy. It has the regular contraptions of mistaken identities, romantic triangles, change of gender through disguise, and more. Often the play gets into bawdy humor with shades of trickery. No wonder Twelfth Night is popular entertainment.

Twelfth Night, Act III, Sc. IV
Still you keep o' the windy side of the law.

Twelfth Night, Act II, Sc. III
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.

Twelfth Night, Act I, Sc. V
We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

Twelfth Night, Act V, Sc. I
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

Twelfth Night, Act II, Sc. III
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Twelfth Night, Act III, Sc. IV
'T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan.

Twelfth Night, Act II, Sc. III
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.

Twelfth Night, Act III, Sc. IV
Out of my lean and low ability
I'll lend you something.

Twelfth Night, Act III, Sc. IV
What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he is an enemy to mankind.

Twelfth Night, Act II, Sc. IV
I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too.

Twelfth Night, Act III, Sc. I
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

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