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“A murderer’s guilt is easier to hide than feelings of love. Midday is like nighttime for love—that’s how brightly passion shines.” (Twelfth Night Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“Come away, come away, Death,
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And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath,
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it!
My part of death no one so true did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strewn:
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where
Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!”
Twelfth Night
“I do I know not what, and fear to find
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Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe.
What is decreed must be; and be this so.”
Twelfth Night
“I say, there is no darkness
William Shakespeare
but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than
the Egyptians in their fog.”
Twelfth Night
“If music be the food of love, play on;
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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 sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
‘Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe’er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.”
Twelfth Night
“In nature there’s no blemish but the mind;
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None can be called deformed but the unkind:
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
Are empty trunks, o’erflourished by the devil.”
Twelfth Night
“Journeys end in lovers meeting,
William Shakespeare
Every wise man’s son doth know.”
Twelfth Night
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” (Twelfth Night Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“Now go with me and with this holy man
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Into the chantry by: there, before him,
And underneath that consecrated roof,
Plight me the full assurance of your faith.”
Twelfth Night
“O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
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It is too hard a knot for me t’untie.”
Twelfth Night
“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.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“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
“The devil a puritan that he is, or anything, constantly, but a time-pleaser, an affectioned ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swathes; 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 – and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours. Therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
“What is love? ’tis not hereafter;
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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 endure.”
Twelfth Night
“What relish is in this? How runs the stream?
William Shakespeare
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!”
Twelfth Night
“Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
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Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.”
Twelfth Night
“Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
