Twelfth Night Important Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Cypresses, Maids, Fairness

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Flower, Fall

  1601 Orsino.Twelfth Night, act 2, sc.4, l.35-8.

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Sweet, Laughter

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Wavering, Longing

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.228, Bloomsbury Publishing

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