👋🏽 Hi, I’m Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for the May–June 2027 exams. In this lesson, learn the quotes from the play word for word. Just don’t copy my explanations into your essay. Explain the quotes in your own words.
In a Twelfth Night essay, a quote helps you most when the words are exact, you know where it comes from and you can say something about it.
Here are 10 quotes worth learning, in the order they come in the play.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
say each quote word for word
name who says it, and in which act and scene
explain the one word that matters in each
pick the right quote for the question in front of you
In the full lesson, I take you through all 10. For each one, you’ll see what’s going on in the scene, which word to explain and the kind of essay question it works for. Then you test yourself.
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Have a pen and paper ready. We’ll start with the first line of the play.