'Much Ado About Nothing' Quotes by Theme

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Love

  • "Man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviour to love" - Benedick, A2S3
  • "I will be horribly in love with her" - Benedick, A2S3
  • "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps" - Hero, A3S2
  • "If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee to bind our loves up in a holy band" - Beatrice, A3S2
  • "God give me joy to wear it for my heart is exceeding heavy" - Hero, A4S1
  • "Strange"; "is that not strange?" - Beatrice and Benedick, A4S1
  • "Now thy image doth appear in the rare semblance that I loved it first" - Claudio, A5S1
  • "I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will" - Benedick, A5S2
  • "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably" - Benedick, A5S2
  • "bind me, or undo me, one of them" - Benedick, A5S4
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Honour and Worth

  • "Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio, to undo Hero and kill Leonato" - Borachio, A2S1
  • "But it would better fit your honour to change your mind" - Don John, A3S2
  • "Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes!" - Leonato, A4S1
  • "Done to death by slanderous tongues was the Hero that here lies; Death; in guerdon of her wrongs, gives her fame which never dies" - Claudio, A5S3
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Deceit and Lies

  • "Men were deceivers ever" - Balthazar, A2S3
  • "the fraud of men was ever so" - Balthazar, A2S3
  • "bait the hook well, this fish will bite!" - Claudio, A2S3
  • "I'll devise some honest slanders" - Hero, A3S1
  • "Every man's Hero" - Don John, A3S2
  • "The word [disloyal] is too good to paint out her wickedness" - Don John, A3S2
  • "Come hither masked" - Leonato (to Hero), A5S4
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Role of Women

  • Can the world buy such a jewel?" - Claudio, A1S1
  • "Thou shalt have her" - Don Pedro, A1S1
  • "Take of me my daughter, and with her my fortunes" - Leonato, A2S1
  • "Nature never framed a woman's heart of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice... to be so odd and from all fashions as Beatrice is cannot be commendable" - Hero, A3S1
  • "Give me this maid, your daughter?" -Claudio, A4S1
  • "Give not this rotten orange to your friend; she's but the sign and semblance of her honour... she knows the heat of a luxurious bed. Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty" - Claudio, A5S4
  • "Which lady must I seize upon?... why then she's mine" - Claudio, A5S4
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Marriage

  • "I hope you have no intent to turn husband- have you?"- Benedick, A1S1
  • "Thou wilt never find thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue"- Leonato, A2S1
  • "if the Prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer" -Leonato, A2S1
  • "God give me joy to wear it for my heart is exceeding heavy" - Hero, A3S4
  • "The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live til I were married" - Benedick, A2S3
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