Much Ado About Nothing Key Quotes Flashcards
Beatrice
-“God help the noble Claudio! If he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere a be cured.” (A1,S1)
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” (A4,S1)
Benedick
- “I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love” (A2,S3)
- “A miracle! Here’s our own hands against our hearts. ” (A5,S4)
Claudio
- “If I see anything tonight why I should not marry her, tomorrow in the congregation, where I should wed, there will I shame her.” (A3,S2)
- “Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, Gives her fame that never dies.” (A5,S3)
Hero
-“And surely as I live, I am a maid.” (A5, S4)
Honour
-“She died, my lord, but whiles her slander liv’d” (A5, S4)
Deception
-“But if all aim but this be levelled false, The supposition of the lady’s death Will quench the wonder of her infamy.” (A4,S1)
Social Class
“I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace” (A1, S3) - Don John
“He were an excellent man that were made just in the midway between him and Benedick” (A2, S1) - Beatrice
Don John
“It must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain” (A1, S3)
Romance
“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps” (A3, S1) - Hero
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest” (A4, S1) - Beatrice
Gender roles
“I charge thee do so, as thou art my child” (A4, S1) - Leonarto
“I cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I will die a woman with grieving” (A4,S1) - Beatrice
Leonarto
“Well, niece, I hope to see you one day with a fitted husband” (A2, S1)
Don Pedro
“And thou shall have her” (A1, S1)
“In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke (A1, S1)
Dogberry
“O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.” (A4, S2) - meant to say ‘damnation’ instead of ‘redemption’
Verges
“Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living
that is an old man and no honester than I.” (A3, S5)
