Quotes from Much Ado About Nothing
18 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1598
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
Kill Claudio.
Beatrice, to Benedick · Act IV, Scene i Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever.
Balthasar's song, Much Ado About Nothing No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.
Beatrice, Act II, Scene i Comparisons are odorous.
Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
Beatrice, Act I, Scene i When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Benedick, Act II, Scene iii For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
Benedick, Act V, Scene iv What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Benedick, to Beatrice · Act I, Scene i I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing O that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
Dogberry, Act IV, Scene ii I am a plain-dealing villain.
Don John, Act I, Scene iii I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes.
Benedick, to Beatrice · Act V, Scene ii Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
Claudio, Act II, Scene i He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
Beatrice, Act II, Scene i Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Hero, Act III, Scene i Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.
Claudio, Act II, Scene i In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
Benedick, Act V, Scene i