Much Ado About Nothing Quotes

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. – Benedick

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange? – Benedick

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. – Hero

Speak low if you speak love. – Don Pedro

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

There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them. – Leonato

Two may keep counsel, putting one away. – Claudio

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. – Benedick

Give me your hand, before this holy friar. I am your husband, if you like of me. – Claudio

I can see he’s not in your good books,’ said the messenger. ‘No, and if he were I would burn my library. – Beatrice

I will live a bachelor. – Benedick

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. – Benedick

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks. – Claudio

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. – Don Pedro

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue. – Benedick

For it falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find the virtue there was in it. – Claudio

Friendship is constant in all things save in the office and affairs of love. – Benedick

Here’s a dish I love not; I cannot endure my lady Tongue. – Benedick

The pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. – Don Pedro

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – Claudio

You are a rare parrot-teacher. – Benedick

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. – Claudio

In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it. – Beatrice

In her hand sad heavy sorrow loads, and none but her in storms moves and friends. – Benedick

But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into’t as to a lover’s bed. – Benedick

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. – Benedick

She shall be buried with her face upwards. Bring me a taper in my Study, and whilst I muffle the up her cold bones, let me apply some savage jealously to her dead eyes. – Benedick

She will fit it. – Benedick

There’s a skirmish of wit between them. – Leonato

Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. – Benedick

There’s a double oath in that. – Benedick

I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. – Beatrice

I con do anything. – Benedick

One bear will not bite another. – Benedick

Love is an immeasurable thought of ‘nothings. – Benedick

Listen, sweet Hero: I do understand your kisses. – Benedick

With no sauce that can be devised to it. – Benedick

How sweetly you do minister to love! – Don Pedro

You were born in a merry hour. – Hero

And so am I intolerable curst with another sorrow in my heart! – Benedick

No; and to say truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment. – Benedick

But I confess, not with a conscious hurt, nor can I rightly say, like to a bad nor find no injury. – Hero

Speak, cousin, or, if you cannot, stop his mouth with a kiss. – Leonato

Oh, if I were a man for his sake, or that I had any friend who would be a man for my sake! – Beatrice

Two women loved me for my money. I was none but when that went, wooing went with it. – Benedick

I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love. – Benedick

Do not you love me? – Benedick

If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way. – Benedick

Why, i’faith, methinks she’s too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for a great praise. – Benedick

You have killed a sweet lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. – Friar Francis