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  • Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

    Grief   Yellow   Green  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]
  • 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's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

    Wise   Sweet   Laughter  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]
  • Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]
  • 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.

    Sweet   Lying   Kissing  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]
  • Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.

    Husband   Heart   Boys  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 29
  • O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!

    Art   Love You   Spirit  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
  • Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 36
  • Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

    Writing   Night   House  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [289]
  • Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

    Love   Life   Family  
    1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.
  • Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

    "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.
  • 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 as it was before.

    Love   Sweet   Fall  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
  • So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
  • Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

    Marriage   Night   Clown  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]
  • Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.

    Love   Sweet   Kissing  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]
  • I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

  • Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
  • All is well that ends well

    Wise   Drama   Italian  
    Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.
  • Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

    William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.228, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

    Art   Drinking   Food  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]
  • 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.

    Grief   Men   Yellow  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]
  • Come away, come away, Death, 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!

    Sweet   Flower   White  
    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51
  • I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

    Book   Soul   Secret  
    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.62
  • Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]
  • All's well that ends well.

    Wise   Wisdom   Drama  
    John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21
  • Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

    Women   Flower   Fall  
    1601 Orsino.Twelfth Night, act 2, sc.4, l.35-8.
  • If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
  • Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51
  • I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better.

    1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.
  • If music be the food of love, play on.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
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