Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Much Ado About Nothing.
Marriage Quotes
BENEDICK But I hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you? CLAUDIO I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the contrary, if Hero would be my wife. (1.1.189-192)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
DON PEDRO You embrace your charge too willingly. [Turningto Hero.] I think this is your daughter. LEONATO Her mother hath many times told me so. BENEDICK Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?...
Language and Communication Quotes
BEATRICE I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no? (1.1.30-31)
Love Quotes
LEONATO You will never run mad, niece. BEATRICE No, not till a hot January. (1.1.91-92)
Respect and Reputation Quotes
LEONATO I find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honor on a young Florentine called Claudio. (1.1.9-11)
Transformation Quotes
CLAUDIO O my, lord, When you went onward on this ended action, I looked upon her with a soldier's eye, That liked, but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of love. But now I...
Gender Quotes
BENEDICK Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple true judgment? Or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex? (1.1.162-165)
Pride Quotes
BENEDICKBut it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love none. (1.1.122-125)
Maturity Quotes
MESSENGER Much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath i...