Much Ado About Nothing (quotes)

I am loved of all ladies only you excepted

Act 1, Scene 1. Benedick. Self assured, reputation

Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?

Act 1, Scene 1. Benedick. Cynical.

"not with love" 'never sick with love'

Act 1, Scene 2. Benedick. brie on love.

he is of a noble strain of approved valour and confirmed honesty

Act 2, Scene 1. Don Pedro about Benedick. Honourable.

I am horribly in love with her

Act 2, Scene 3. Benedick. True feelings attatude to love changed.

I have toothache

Act 3, Scene 2. Benedick. Link to earlier in play, trying to hide love.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably

Act 5, Scene 2. Benedick. Reflective.

truly the lady fathers herself

Act 1, Scene 1. Leonato about Beatrice. Making fun of her going against Elizabethan culture.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me

Act 1, Scene1. Beatrice. view on love (ironic at end)

Not till God make men of some other metal then earth

Act 1, Scene 1. Beatrice. excuses not to love, defiance to society.

I was born to speak all mirth and no matter

Act 2, Scene 1. Beatrice. Witt, aware she does not follow social norms.

She mocks all get wooers out of suit

Act 2, Scene 1. Leonato about Beatrice. Making fun of niece.

God send me no husband

Act 2, Scene 1. Beatrice. knows marriage is expected of her but she doesn't want to conform.

he won it of ne with false dice

Act 2, Scene 1. Beatrice. betrayed by Benedick in past relationship?

taming my wild heart to thy loving hand

Act 3, Scene 1. Beatrice about Benedick. change in attitude to love, only for Benedick

methinks you look with your eyes as other women do

Act 3, Scene 4. Margaret to Beatrice. sees right through Beatrice's facade.

I love him with so much of my heart that none is left to protest

Act 4, Scene1. Beatrice. attitude to love changed.

she is wronged, she is slandered

Act 5, Scene 1. Beatrice. defends/believes in Hero from beginning

I am sick

Act 3, Scene 4. Beatrice. trying to deter Ursula from realising she is in love

O God, that I were a man!

Act 4, Scene 1. Beatrice. frustrated, wants to defend cousin's honour.

the sweetest lady that I ever looked on

Act 1, Scene 1. Claudio about Hero. Looks her only quality, represents ideal Elizabethan woman.

Can the world buy such a jewel?

Act 1, Scene 1. Claudio about Hero. seen as an item, only to look at.

It is my cousin's duty to make curtsy

Act 2, Scene 1. Beatrice about Hero. submissive.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Act 3, Scene 1. Hero to Ursula. deception, trickery, playful

O, God defend me, how am I beset!

Act 4, Scene 1. Hero. woman so doesn't feel she can protect herself.

O, she is fallen into a pit of ink

Act 4, Scene 1. Leonato. not morally clean, reputation stained.

and surely as I live, I am a maid

Act 5, Scene 4. Hero. Story full circle, purity

only heir

attractive quality to men.

the feats of a lion

Act 1, Scene 1. Messenger about Claudio. brave, honourable.

Hath Leonato any son, my Lord?

Act 1, Scene 1. Claudio. greed, wants status.

the young start-up hath all the glory of my over throw

Act 1, Scene 3. Don John about Claudio. not fully respected.

Civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion

Act 2, Scene 1. Beatrice to Claudio. jealousy

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites

Act 2, Scene 1. Claudio to Leonato. eager.

Where I should we, there will I shame her

Act 3, Scene 2. Claudio. reputation over love.

yet sinned I not

Act 5, Scene 1. Claudio. defending honour and actions.

my love is thine to teach

Act 1, Scene 1. Don Pedro. helpful, loyal.

thou shalt have her

Act 1, Scene 1. Don Pedro. powerful, loyal.

I charge thee on thy allegiance

Act 1, Scene 1. Don Pedro. powerful.

Claudio, I have wooed in thy name

Act 2, Scene 1. Don Pedro. Loyal

Nay, do not quarrel with us

Act 5, Scene 1. Don Pedro. calm, logical

I would bend under any heavy weight

Act 5, Scene 1. Don Pedro. honest

Your Grace
My lord

shows respect for Don Pedro, and his high status

I am not of many words but I thank you

Act 1, Scene 1. Don John. not convetional Shakespeare villain

if I had my liberty, I would do my liking

Act 1, Scene 3. Don John. bastered less rights, feels victimised

I am a plain dealing villain

Act 1, Scene 3. Donna John. self aware .

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace

Act 1, Scene 3. Don John. doesn't want to be fake

I cannot hide what I am

Act 1, Scene 3. Don John. ironic as constantly desives people

he is of very melancholy disposition

Act 2, Scene 1. Hero about Don John. miserable.

to despite them, I will endeavour any thing

Act 2, Scene 2. Don John. malicious, sly

the devil my master

Act 3, Scene 3. Borachio another Don John. even throes closest don't feel he is nice

you know your answer

Act 2, Scene 1. Leonato to Hero. controlling, gender norms

knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence

Act 2, Scene 3. Benedict about Leonato. respected

would the two princes lie

Act 4, Scene 1. leonato. they of hight class and are men

come, Friar Francis, be brief

Act 4, Scene 1. Leonato. impatient

thou hast so wronged mine child and mine

Act 5, Scene 1. Leonato . protective of daughter and reputation.

be vigitant, I beseech you

Act 3, Scene 3. Docherty. sincere, ignorant.

we are now to examination these men

Act 3, Scene 5. Dogberry. trust too speak like high class, failed

I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer

Act 4, Scene 2. Dogberry. self important.

master constable you go not the way to examine

Act 4, Scene 2. sexton to Dogberry. incompotent.

She knows the heat of a luxurious bed

Claudio shaming Hero

every man's Hero

C shaming H

rotten orange

metaphor, sdigusting just like how virgins seen in elizabethan culture.

I know you of old

Beatrice and Benedick past ?

I would burn my study

Beatrice if Benedick in her good books

hard heart ... I love none

Benedick doesn't love

art thee not ashamed

Hero to Margaret after she talks of sex, innocence

signor montanto

sexual innuendo, Beatrice making fun of Benedick

merry war

oxymoron, discribes Beatrice and Benedick's relationship

nobody marks you

ironic Beatrice paying attention to him

is it possible distain should die while she hath such meat food to feed it a signor Benedick?

Beatrice response to lady distain

Marriage is first 'Hot and hasty',

then 'comes repentance'

'taming my

wild heart'

'I had rather hear

my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me'

'speak

cousin'

'I will weep

a while longer'

'she is wronged',

'she is slandered'

'Kill

Claudio"

'till god make man

of some other metal than earth'

'benedict, nobody

marks you'

'he is the prince's

jester'

'o that I

were a man'

'father as

it please me'

'protest I

love you'

'merry

war'

'skirmish

of wit'

'I know you

of old'

'I will requite

thee'

'I will live

a bachelor'

'why it must

be requited'

'railed so long

against marriage'

'every word

stabs'

'I am loved

of all ladies'

'pluck off the bull's

horns and set them in my forehead'

'ha, not for the

wide world'

'would you buy her,

that you inquire after her'

'there's her

cousin'

'I do love nothing

in the world so well as you'

'stolen his

birds nest'

'how doth

the lady'

'sir sir

be patient'