| “There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.” (I, i, 58-61) | Leonato |
| “Because I will not do them the 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.” (I, i. 233-237) | Benedick |
| “It must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain.” (I, iii, 29-30) | Don John |
| “I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.” (II, i, 81-82) | Beatrice |
| “Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.” (II, i, 173-178) | Claudio |
| “I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.” (II, iii, 12-15) | Benedick |
| “I’ll devise some honest slanders/ To stain my cousin with. One doth not know/ How much an ill word may empoison liking.” (III, i, 84-86) | Hero |
| “If I see anything tonight why I should not marry her tomorrow, in the congregation where I should wed, there will I shame her.” (III, ii, 119-121) | Claudio |
| “Yet Benedick was such another, and now is he become a man. He swore he would never marry; and yet now in despite of his heart he eats his meat without grudging. And how you may be converted I know not; but methinks you look with your eyes as other women do.” (III, v, 84-89) | Margret |
| “You seem to me as Dian in her orb, As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown; But you are more intemperate in your blood Than Venus, or those pamp’red animals That rage in savage sensuality.” (IV, i, 56-60) | Claudio |
| “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” (IV, i, 284-285) | Beatrice |
| “I cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I will die a woman with grieving.” (IV, i, 320-321) | Beatrice |
| “Men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion” (V, i, 20-23) | Leonato |
| “No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival turns.” (V, ii, 40-41) | Benedick |
| “One Hero died defiled; but I do live, And surely as I live, I am a maid.” (V, iv, 63-64) | Hero |
| “Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.” (V, iv, 104-108) | Benedick |
Much Ado About Nothing Quotes
July 6, 2019