Much Ado About Nothing Quotes

don pedro

"i shall see thee, ere i die look pale with love"

benedick

"i have a toothache"

claudio

"give not this rotten orange to your friend"

don pedro

"i will assume thy part in some disguise and tell fair Hero i am Claudio"

don john

"i had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be disdained by all..."

leonato

"by my troth niece, thou shalt never get thee a husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue"

beatrice

"the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, fun and fantastical; the wedding, mannerly and modest as a measure, full of state and ancientry; then comes repentance..."

beatrice

"oh God, would that i were a man! i would eat his heart in the marketplace"

benedick

"Oh God sir, here is a dish i love not; i cannot endure my Lady Tongue"

beatrice

"speak cousin, or f you cannot, stop his mouth with a kiss and let him speak not either"

benedick

"i can find out no rhyme to lady, but baby...an innocent rhyme; for scorn, horn..."

benedick

"shall i never see a bachelor of four score again?"

hero

"if it proves so, then loving goes by haps: Some cupids kill with arrows, some with traps"

beatrice

"i took no more pains for those thanks than you took to thank me; if had been painful, i would not have come."

don john

"that young start up hath all the glory of ,overthrow; if i can cross him anyway, i bless myself every way"

beatrice

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

dogberry

"be vigitant; i beseech you"

borachio

"therefore know i have this night earned of Don John a thousand ducats"

claudio

"friendship is constant in other things save in the office and affairs of love"

don pedro

"i stand here dishonor'd that i have gone about to link my dear friend to a common stale"

beatrice

"i love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest"

claudio

"can the world buy such a jewel?"

leonato

"grieved I, i had but one?...O, one too much by thee...why had i one? Why was thou ever lovely in my eyes?"

hero

"One Hero died defiled, but i do live. And surely as i live, i am a maid"

benedick

"thou and i art too wise to woo peacefully"

claudio

"for thee, I'll lock up all the gates of love and and on my eyelids shall conjecture hand, to turn all beauty into thoughts of harm..."

beatrice

"oh, on my soul, my cousin is belied!"

friar francis

"let her be awhile be secretly kept in, and publish it that she is dead indeed"

beatrice

"kill claudio"

don pedro

"if we can do this, Cupid is no archer, for we are the only love gods"

dogberry

"oh villain, thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this!"

benedick

"the world must be peopled"

leonato

"bring me a father that so loved is child, whose joy of her is overwhelmed like mine, and bid him speak of patience"

claudio

"sweet Hero, now thy image doth appear in the rare semblance that i loved i first"

benedick

"come, i will have thee, but by this light, i take thee for pity"

doberry

"bust masters, remember that i am an ass"

beatrice

"no, unless i might have another for working days; your grace is too costly to wear everyday"

benedick

"rich she shall be, that's certain; wise or i'll none...mild, or come not near me..."

benedick

"i do love nothing in the world so well as you; is not that strange?"

claudio

who: "he hath born himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion"

benedick

who: "who is his companion now? he hath every month a new sworn brother"

hero

who: "she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for a great praise..."

don john

who: "how tartly that gentleman looks! i never see him but i an heart-burned an hour after"

benedick

who: "why, he is the prince's jester, a very dull fool"

hero

who: "she is never sad but when she sleeps, and not even then, for i have heard that she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing..."

claudio

who: "for my part... i did think to have beaten thee, but in that thou are like to be my cousin, live unbruised..."

claudio

who: "he is neither sad nor sick nor merry nor well, but civil...as an orange, and something of hat jealous complexion"

beatrice

who: "disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes misprizing what she looks on, she cannot love..."

hero

who: "on my honor, she was charged with nothing but was was true and very full of proof"

beatrice

who: "if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were none living near her; she would infect the north star"

hero

who: "in mine eyes, she is the sweetest lady that ever i looked on"

beatrice

who: "my dear lady disdain; are you yet living?"

don john

who: "think not on him till tomorrow. I'll devise thee brave punishments for him"

claudio

who: "[as] for my lord lackbeard there, he and i shall meet"