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      • Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.” ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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  2. Explanation of the famous quotes in Twelfth Night, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.

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  3. There are many well-known quotes in Twelfth Night – here we've listed a few of them, in order of appearance in the play. Twelfth Night, 2005, directed by Michael Boyd.

  4. Twelfth Night Quotes Showing 1-30 of 175. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”. ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. tags: greatness.

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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. — That strain again; it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear, like the sweet...

    O Time, thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me t' untie.
    O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear: your true-love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man’...
    What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty: Youth's a stuff will not e...
    He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
    Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?
    Sir Toby: Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Feste: Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i’ the mouth too.
    Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun; it shines everywhere.
    O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful In the contempt and anger of his lip!
    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.

    As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That, that is, is.

    Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
    When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain: A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
    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.
    Viola – a shipwrecked young woman who disguises herself as a page named Cesario
    Sebastian – Viola's twin brother
    Duke Orsino – Duke of Illyria
    Olivia – a wealthy countess

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  5. Shakespeare’s topsy-turvy, festive romantic comedy Twelfth Night provides all manner of enduring and memorable quotes. Like so many of his plays, Shakespeare uses dialogue to brings his characters to life with witty oservations and some great one-liners about love and life.

  6. Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Twelfth Night, or What You Will.

  7. Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian , who are separated in a shipwreck.

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