Olivia: Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better [III.1.1395]
What other characters say about Olivia:
Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty [Viola as Cesario, I.5.464]
Fool [Feste, I.5.345 ]
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count.[Captain, I.2.83]
Marble-breasted tyrant [Orsino, V.1.2316]
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Feste: I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. [III.1.1269 ]
What other characters say about Feste:
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit [Viola, III.1.1295]
barren rascal / I saw him put down the other day /with an ordinary fool that has no more brain
than a stone. [Malvolio, I.5.373-375
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Meaning of Name: Ill Will
Malvolio: Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow things: I am not of your element [III.4.1666-1667]
What other characters say about Malvolio:
“an affectioned ass" [Maria, II.3.846]
Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite. [Olivia, I.5.380-381]
Here's an overweening rogue. [Sir Toby Belch, II.5.1058]
sometimes he is a kind of puritan [Maria, II.3.839]
Madman [Feste, I.5.429]
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Meaning of Name: Suggests rotundity and indigestion, presumably from a life of excessive drinking and eating
Sir Toby Belch: Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am: / these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be / these boots too: an they be not, let them hang
themselves in their own straps. [I.3.124-127]
What other characters say about Sir Toby:
the knight's in admirable fooling [Feste, II.3.781]
Good Sir Toby [Maria, II.3.804]
are you mad? or what are you? Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty,Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty [Malvolio, II.3. 788-789]
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Maria: My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. [II.3.866]
What other characters say about Maria:
She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me [Sir Toby Belch, II.3.878]
Here comes my noble gull-catcher. [Fabian, II.5.1212]
Most excellent devil of wit. [Sir Toby Belch, II.5.1232]
Fair shrew [Sir Andrew Aguecheek, I.3.159]
Look, where the youngest wren of nine comes. [Sir Toby Belch, III.2.1469]
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Viola/Cesario: No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs / of malice I swear, I am not that I play. [I.5.477]
What other characters say about Viola/Cesario:
good youth [Duke Orsino, I.4.258]
For they shall yet belie thy happy years, / That say thou art a man: Diana's lip / Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe / Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound, / And all is semblative a woman's part. [Duke Orsino, I.4.279-282]
between boy and man. He is very well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him [Malvolio, I.5.451-453]
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful / In the contempt and anger of his lip! [Olivia, III.1.1384-1385]
The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for / a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate. [Sir Andrew Aguecheek, V.1.2379-2380]
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Orsino: I myself am best / When least in company. [1.4.277]
What other characters say about Orsino:
A noble duke, in nature as in name. [Captain, 1.2.72]
Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him. / Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth, / In voices well divulged, free, learn'd, and valiant, And in the dimension and the shape of nature / A gracious person; but yet I cannot love him. / He might have took his answer long ago. [Olivia, 1.5.547-553]
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Meaning of Name: Ague means fever, suggesting a pale, sickly figure
Sir Andrew Aguecheek: Methinks sometimes I have no more wit / than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a / great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. [I.3.93-94]
What other characters say about Sir Andrew:
He's a very fool and a prodigal.[Maria, I.3.137]
He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. [Sir Toby Belch, I.3.133]
Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair. [Sir Toby Belch, I.3.204]
I shall be constrained in't to call thee knave, knight [Feste, II.3.164-165]
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Sebastian: What relish is in this? How runs the stream? / Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. / Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;/ If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! [IV.1.2013-2015]
What other characters say about Sebastian:
Be not amazed; right noble is his blood. [Orsino, V.1.2465]
Sebastian was my brother too [Viola/Cesario, V.1.2433]
How have you made division of yourself? / An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin
Than these two creatures. [Antonio, V.1.2422-2224]
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Fabian: If this were played upon a stage now, I could / condemn it as an improbable fiction.[III.4.1671-1672]
What other characters say about Fabian:
Signior Fabian [Sir Toby Belch, II.5.1029]
Good Master Fabian [Feste, V.1.2191]
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