Quotes About Shakespeare Twelfth Night

#1. Spirit doesn't retire.

Toba Beta

#2. Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.

William Shakespeare

#3. It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
[Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#4. I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.

William Shakespeare

#5. As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

Arabella Weir

#6. I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.

August Alsina

#7. The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.

Joanna Walsh

#8. Sir Toby Belch: "Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night)

William Shakespeare

#9. Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare

#10. Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?
Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

William Shakespeare

#11. It's never been about that. It's about what He wants to do for you. It's about His passionate, crazy love for you. You don't need to do anything to please Him. All you need to do is rest in the knowledge that you are greatly loved by Him.

Praying Medic

#12. Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Marlo Thomas

#13. It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

Michael Faraday

#14. In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Richard LaGravenese

#15. The right to privacy ... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Harry A. Blackmun

#16. I chose to help people, because there'd been no-one there to help me when I needed it.

Simon R. Green

#17. If music is the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

#18. One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

George W. Bush

#19. So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

William Shakespeare

#20. You have to love yourself. That's the single most powerful thing. Out of that springs: How are you eating? How are you exercising? How are you resting?

Nia Peeples

#21. Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves so long as I could see.

William Shakespeare

#22. Observe him, for the love of mockery

William Shakespeare

#23. I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Blythe Danner

#24. If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

Elizabeth Olsen

#25. I hope that one day you will think of me as your friend.

Mitch Albom

#26. Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best
To woo your lady.'
[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.

William Shakespeare