You say you’re a fan of the Bard but can you name who said some are born great without a guess? In this Twelfth Night Quotes Quiz, you’ll test your ear for Elizabethan dialogue by matching well-known lines to the characters who spoke them. Well, let’s see if you can get these words to the right owners before the time is up.
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Twelfth Night Quotes Quiz Questions
- “If music be the food of love, play on.”
- “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
- “Make me a willow cabin at your gate.”
- “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.”
- “I am all the daughters of my father’s house, and all the brothers too.”
- “My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.”
- “Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness.”
- “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as improbable fiction.”
- “Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
- “Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?”
- “By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth.”
- “Why, this is very midsummer madness.”
- “Better a bad liver than an ill liver.”
- “O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite.”
- “Go hang yourselves all! You are idle shallow things; I am not of your element.”
- “Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.”
- “Journeys end in lovers meeting.”
- “I’ll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat.”
- “He is as tall a man as any’s in Illyria.”
- “Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.”
- “Thou art a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.”
- “I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you!”
- “My lady loves me; she did commend my yellow stockings of late.”
- “I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love to spite a raven’s heart within a dove.”
- “An apple cleft in two is not more twin than these two creatures.”
- “I’ll prove a tyrant to him. As for women, they are as roses.”
- “This fellow is wise enough to play the fool.”
- “Be not afraid of greatness.”
- “Do not smile at me, that I do not smile again.”
- “When that I was and a little tiny boy, with a hey, ho, the wind and the rain.”