Twelfth Night (1996)
Toby Stephens: Orsino
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Quotes
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Duke Orsino of Illyria : If music be the food of love, play on.
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Orsino : Make no compare Between that love a woman can bear me And that I owe Olivia.
Cesario : Ay, but I know...
Cesario : What dost thou know?
Cesario : Too well what love women to men may owe. In faith, they are as true of heart as we. My father had a daughter lov'd a man As it might be perhaps, were I a woman, I should your lordship.
Orsino : And what's her history?
Cesario : A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pin'd 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 still we prove Much in our vows but little in our love.
Orsino : But died thy sister of her love, my boy?
Cesario : I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too-and yet I know not.
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Duke Orsino : If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, I shall have share in this most happy wreck.
Duke Orsino : [to Viola/Cesario]
Duke Orsino : Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times thou never shouldst love woman like to me.
Viola : And all those sayings will I overswear.
Duke Orsino : Give me thy hand. Your master quits you; and for your service done him, so much against the mettle of your sex, here is my hand. You shall from this time be your master's mistress.
