Quotes

Question 1

‘He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion’

Answer 1

• The messenger about Claudio in the war, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 2

‘How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!’

Answer 2

• Leonato in response to being told that Claudio’s uncle wept with joy at the news of his success, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 3

‘Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?’

Answer 3

• Don John asking Borachio if Claudio’s intended marriage can be subject to his scheming, Act 1 Scene 3

Question 4

‘There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her’

Answer 4

• Leonato addressing the messenger in regards to Beatrice’s strong words against Benedick, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 5

‘I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? - for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing’

Answer 5

• Beatrice inferring that she doesn’t believe Benedick has the strength to kill anyone in war, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 6

‘And a good soldier too, lady’

‘And a good soldier to a lady, but what is he to a lord?’

Answer 6

• The messenger and Beatrice about Benedick, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 7

‘Stuffed with all honourable virtues’

‘He is no less than a stuffed man’

Answer 7

• The messenger and Beatrice about Benedick, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 8

‘Never come trouble to my house in the likeliness of your grace; for trouble being gone, comfort should remain’

Answer 8

• Leonato’s convoluted greeting to Don Pedro, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 9

‘I wonder that you will still be talking, Signor Benedick, nobody marks you’

Answer 9

• Beatrice to Benedick at the beginning of their merry war, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 10

‘What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living’

Answer 10

• Benedick to Beatrice in their merry war, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 11

‘You are a rare parrot teacher’

‘A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours’

Answer 11

• Benedick and Beatrice resorting to childish insults in their merry war, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 12

‘Can the world buy such a jewel?’

‘Yea, and a case to put it into too’

Answer 12

• Claudio and Benedick about Hero, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 13

‘Pick out my eyes with a ballad-maker’s pen, and hang me up at the door of a brothel house for the sign of blind Cupid’

‘Hang me in a bottle like a cat’

‘Pluck off the bull’s horns’

Answer 13

• Benedick about what should happen if he falls in love, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 14

‘Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signor Leonato?’

‘I noted her not, but I looked on her’

Answer 14

• Claudio and Benedick talking about Hero, Act 1 Scene 1

Question 15

‘That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow’

Answer 15

• Don John about Claudio, Act 1 Scene 3

Question 16

‘What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?’

Answer 16

• Don John talking about his scorn for marriage, Act 1 Scene 3

Question 17

‘I am a plain-dealing villain’

Answer 17

• Don John, Act 1 Scene 3

Question 18

‘I must be sad when I have cause… eat when I have stomach… sleep when I am drowsy…’

Answer 18

• Don John