Inconstancy

• For women are as roses whose fair flower doth fall that very hour


  Orsino
• women are as constant as the moon,

  Ever-changing.


  Orsino
• Love sought is good, but given unsought is better


  Olivias justification of her fast change in romantic interest
• changeable taffeta, opal


  Feste
• Still so constant, Lord.” / “Then you shall be as much a fool for your master.


   Viola and Feste, Act 3, Scene 1

  Viola insists she’s constant in love, and Feste teases her—implying that constancy, in a world full of change and disguise, might be foolish.
• he is undoubtably inconsistent


  schalwyk on orsino
• its inconsistency is the source of comedy and confusion alike


  Billington on love