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Much Ado About Nothing Quotes
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thyeyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
. . . I will not be sworn, but love may trans-form me to an oyster, but, I’ll take my oath on it, till hehave made an oyster of me, he shall never make me sucha fool.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Then is courtesy a turncoat. 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. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down.BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please me.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Men from children nothing differ.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say ‘Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here’s no place for you maids:’ so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig–and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, -One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Friendship is constant in all other thingsSave 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 witchAgainst whose charms faith melteth into blood.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro – (…)’In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.’Benedick – The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull’s horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, ‘Here is good horse for hire’, let them signify under my sign, ‘Here you may see Benedick the married man.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening …
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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