| I pray you, is Signor Mountanto returned from the wars or no? | Beatrice |
| God help the noble Claudio! If he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere ‘a be cured. | Beatrice |
| Good Signor Leonato, are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. | Don Pedro |
| But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love none. | Benedick |
| A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours. | Beatrice |
| Thou thinkest I am in sport. I pray thee, tell me truly how thou lik’st her. | Claudio |
| Can the world buy such a jewel? | Claudio |
| Is’t come to this? In faith, hath not the world one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? | Benedick |
| But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do them wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor. | Benedick |
| Well, if thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument. | Don Pedro |
| My liege, Your Highness now may do me good. | Claudio |
| Hath Leonato any son, my lord? | Claudio |
| Dost thou affect her, Claudio? | Don Pedro |
| But now I am returned and that war thoughts have left their places vacant; in their rooms come thronging soft and delicate desires, all prompting me how fair young Hero is, saying I liked her ere I went to wars. | Claudio |
| If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it, and I will break with her and with her father, and thou shalt have her. | Don Pedro |
| How sweetly you do minister to love, that know love’s grief by his complexion! | Claudio |
| I will assume thy part in some disguise, and tell fair Hero I am Claudio. | Don Pedro |
| The Prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance. | Antonio |
| Hath the fellow any wit that told you this? | Leonato |
| But I will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the better prepared for an answer, if peradventure this be true. | Leonato |
| There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit. | Don John |
| I cannot hide what I am. | Don John |
| You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta’en you newly into his grace, where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself. | Conrad |
| I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace. | Don John |
| I whipped me behind an arras, and there heard it agreed upon that the Prince should woo Hero for himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count Claudio. | Borachio |
| This may prove food to my displeasure. | Don John |
| Would the cook were o’ my mind! | Don John |
Much Ado About Nothing Act 1 Quotes
July 11, 2019