100+ Best 12th Night Quotes – Famous & Inspirational Lines from Shakespeare

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou."

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."

"I am all the daughters of my father's house, and all the brothers too."

"Make me a willow cabin at your gate."

"My state is desperate for a remedy."

"She sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief."

"I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, to spite a raven's heart within a dove."

"I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."

"Duke Orsino, I'll be glad of it: make thy large promises."

"Love, as it grows, man hardly sees his way."

"To be in love, what is't to be in love?"

"If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die."

"I have known when there was no meaning in the music."

"Methinks I feel this youth's perfections press hard upon me."

"O, she that has a heart of that fine frame to pay this debt of love but to a brother!"

"The poor world is almost six thousand years old."

"I'll attend Duke Orsino's pleasure."

"There is no woman's sides can bide the beating of so strong a passion."

"He hath been seven year a lover."

"I abjure the show and revel of such dwellers."

"My mind is all muddy."

"The rain it raineth every day."

"I am not what I am."

"I am not what I am."

"I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you."

"Conceal me what I am, and be my aid."

"I am not what I play."

"As I am a man, I say unto thee, I wish I were a woman."

"I am not who I am."

"I am not what I seem."

"I am not what I am called."

"I am not what I wear."

"I am not what you think."

"I am not what fortune would have me."

"I am not what time shall unfold me to be."

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun."

"The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."

"Now go we in content, to liberty, and not to banishment."

"Most wonderful!"

"Wit, an’t be thy will, put me into good fooling!"

"The fool shall look no older than his master."

"I wear not motley in my brain."

"For the fruitful season, they say, wears the garland."

"No fool, no fool, but he that laughs at himself."

"Cucullus non facit monachum—that's as much as to say I wear not motley in my brain."

"O time, thou must untangle this, not I."

"Time's thievish progress to eternity."

"What time we hate, 'tis us we hate."

"Daylight and champain discovers not more."

"Time goes backward with some folk."

"Time will bring light."

"Our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities."

"Time's glory is to calm contending kings."

"When liveries meet, the guys are complete."

"Time's waste makes no waste."

"Time is a great physician."

"Time is the nurse and breeder of all good."

"I am not what I am."

"I'll serve this duke; thou shalt present me as a eunuch to him."

"This is a dear abuse, wherewith I am much delighted."

"He is now out of his wits."

"Madam, you have done me wrong."

"This is a practice as full of labor as dangerous."

"I’ll after him again, and desire no better honor than to be his valet."

"You mistake, sir: I am sure no man has more reason than I have."

"I am not what I am."

"I am not what I seem."

"I am not what I play."

"I am not what I am called."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Come away, come away, death, and in sad cypress let me be laid."

"O mistress mine, where are you roaming?"

"Play music!"

"Music, awake her soul!"

"That strain again, it had a dying fall."

"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."

"A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit."

"So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high fantastical."

"The spital-house and bedlam never reeked with such perdition."

"It is a kind of incest to take the fruit before the blossom."

"Words are very rascals."

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun."

"The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."

"Wit, an’t be thy will, put me into good fooling!"

"The fool shall look no older than his master."

"I wear not motley in my brain."

"Cucullus non facit monachum—that's as much as to say I wear not motley in my brain."

"No fool, no fool, but he that laughs at himself."

"Give a dry hand, marry; and now begins my fustian."

"Boots and spurs I doubt not."

"A fool should never hold his tongue."

"O, she that has a heart of that fine frame to pay this debt of love but to a brother!"

"How easy is it for the proper false in women’s waxen hearts to set their forms!"

"Beauty truly blent, whose red and white nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on."

"Lady, you are the cruèlest she alive if you will lead these graces to the grave."

"I am all the daughters of my father's house, and all the brothers too."

"Your servant's servant is your servant, madam."

"I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."

"I am not what I am."

"I am not what I seem."

"I am not what I play."

"I am not what I am called."

"I am not what you think."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"O mistress mine, where are you roaming?"

"Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her."

"Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song."

"Let still the woman take an elder than herself."

"A little thing would make me tell them how much I lack of a man."

"I am not what I am."

"I am not what I seem."

"I am not what I play."

"I am not what I am called."

"I am not what you think."

"I am not what fortune would have me."