Much Ado About Nothing Quotes

Benedick

• ‘A good soldier to a lady, but what is he to a lord?’

• ‘She speaks poniards and every word stabs’

• ‘I love none’

Beatrice

• ‘Rare parrot teacher’

• ‘Lady Disdain’

• ‘Not till God make men of some other mettle than Earth’

Hero

• ‘A very forward March chick’

• ‘Thou pure impiety and impious purity’

• ‘Die to live’ ‘Hero’

Claudio

• ‘Doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion’

• ‘Lord Lackbeard’

• ‘As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown’

Leonato

• 'Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?'

• 'Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my fortunes

• ‘She is fallen into a pit of ink

Don Pedro

• ‘In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke’

• ‘Nay do not quarrel with us, good old man’

Don John

• ‘I am a plain-dealing villain’

• ‘I am sick in displeasure’

Dogberry

• ‘Be vigitant’

• ‘I am an ass’

Deception

• ‘Thick-pleached alley’

• ‘This fish will bite’ ‘False sweet bait’

• ‘There’s a double meaning in that’

Independence

• ‘Wooing, wedding and repenting is a Scottish jig’

• ‘But manhood is melted into curtsies’

• ‘I love none’

Relationships

• ‘’Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man’

• ‘She knows the heat of a luxurious bed’

• ‘You seem to me as Dian in her orb’

Honour

• ‘Hang my bugle in an invisible baldric’

• ‘Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s Hero’

• ‘I will not be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster’

Relationship - BandB

• ‘Merry war’

• ‘She speaks poniards and every word stabs’

• ‘Love me? Why it must be requited’ ‘I will requite thee’

Relationship - CandH

• ‘Rotten orange’

• ‘Didst thou note the daughter of Signor Leonato?’

• ‘She knows the heat of a luxurious bed’

Male attitudes to women

• ‘Can the world buy such a jewel?’

• ‘Civil as an orange’

• ‘This harpy’

Comedy

• ‘Civil as an orange’

• ‘I am an ass’

• ‘There’s a double meaning in that’