Much Ado About Nothing - Characters Flashcards
Benedick
“Why, i’faith, methinks…”
“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
“The savage bull may…”
“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 vilely painted and in such great letters as they write ‘here is good horse to hire,’ let them signify under my sign ‘here you may see Benedick the married man’”
Benedick
“I do love nothing…”
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you, is that not strange?”
Beatrice
“ I thank God and my cold blood…”
“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”
Beatrice
“I pray you, is Signor…”
“I pray you, is Signor Mountanto returned from the wars or no?”
Beatrice
“Oh God that I were…”
“Oh God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place”
Claudio
“Can the world buy…”
“Can the world buy such a jewel?… In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on”
Claudio
“But now I am returned…”
“But now I am returned and that war thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms, come thronging soft and delicate desires, all prompting me how fair young Hero is”
Claudio
“Give not this rotten…”
“Give not this rotten orange to your friend, she’s but the sign and semblance of her honour”
Hero
“So you walk softly…”
“So you walk softly, and look sweetly, and say nothing, I am yours for the walk, and especially when I walk away”
Hero
“He is of a very…”
“He is of a very melancholy disposition”
Hero
“One Hero died…”
“One Hero died defiled, but I do live, and surely as I live, I am a maid”
Don Pedro
“And in her bosom I’ll…”
“And in her bosom I’ll unclasp my heart, and take her hearing prisoner with the force, and strong encounter of my amourous tale”
Don Pedro
“Well, as time shall try:…”
“Well, as time shall try: ‘In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke’”
Don Pedro
“I stand dishonoured…”
“I stand dishonoured that have gone about, to link my dear friend to a common stale”
