Key Quotes Flashcards
“Kill Claudio”
Beatrice to Benedick, Act 4
“Give not this rotten orange to your friend”
Claudio about Hero, love and honour
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me”
Beatrice, love
“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married”
Benedick, love
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest”
Beatrice to Benedick, Love Shows their change happening throughout the play
“She speaks poniards, and every word stabs”
Benedick about Beatrice, love Poniards = dagger, pointy
“Signior Montanto”
Beatrice about Benedick, Act 1 Love
“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.”
Beatrice about Hero - daughters obediance to fathers
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me”
Beatrice
“Can the world buy such as jewel”
Claudio about Hero, Act 1
“I trust you will be ruled by your father”
Antoniono to Hero
“Merry War”
Description of Beatrice and Benedick
- Oxymoron
“She speaks ponairds and every word stabs”
Benedick and Beatrice
- poniards = dagger, knife, sharp point
“He’s of a very meloncoly desposition”
Hero talking about Don John
- Emphasising his character
“I am a plain deceiving thief”
Don John, honesty
