Much Ado About Nothing

Famous Lines

O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart
in the marketplace.

Beatrice, Act 4, Scene 2

Messenger: I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
Beatrice: No; an he were, I would burn my study.

Act 1, Scene 1 

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.

Beatrice, Act 1, Scene 1   

It must not be denied
but I am a plain-dealing villain.

Don John, Act 1, Scene 3

… there was a
Star danced, and under that was I born.

Beatrice, Act 2, Scene 1 

Speak low, if you speak love.

Don Pedro, Act 2, Scene 1

As merry as the day is long.

Beatrice, Act 2, Scene 1

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more;
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.

Balthasar, Act 2, Scene 3

When I said I would
die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I
were married.

Benedick, Act 2, Scene 3 

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Hero, Act 3, Scene 1   

…for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.

Dogberry, Act 3, Scene 4

There, Leonato, take her back again:
Give not this rotten orange to your friend...

Claudio, Act 4, Scene 1

I love you with so much of my heart that none is
left to protest.

Beatrice, Act 4, Scene 1

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is
not that strange?

Benedick, Act 4, Scene 2

O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart
in the marketplace.

Beatrice, Act 4, Scene 2

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be
buried in thy eyes...

Benedick, Act 5, Scene 2    

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably

Benedick, Act 5, Scene 2   

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