Quotes by or about characters from Much Ado About Nothing

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"beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion"
Messenger about Claudio, 1.1
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"How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!"
Leonato, 1.1
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"There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her; they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them."
"her" is Beatrice, 1.1
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"Her mother hath many times told me so."
Leonato about Hero being his daughter, 1.1
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"my dear Lady Disdain!"
Benedick to Beatrice, 1.1
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"I am loved by 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."
Benedick to Beatrice, 1.1
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"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."
Beatrice, 1.1
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"Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such a face as yours were."
Beatrice to Benedick, 1.1
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"I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer."
Benedick to Beatrice, 1.1
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"I am not of many words"
Don John
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"Is she not a modest young lady?"
Claudio about Hero, 1.1
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"Can the world buy such a jewel?"
Claudio about Hero, 1.1
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"she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on."
Claudio about Hero, 1.1
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"there's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December."
Benedick comparing Hero ("the last of December") with Beatrice ("the first of May"), 1.1
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"I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the contrary, if Hero would be my wife."
Claudio about not trusting himself not to get married, 1.1
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"he is in love."
Benedick about Claudio, 1.1
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"Leonato's short daughter"
Benedick about Hero, 1.1
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"the lady is very well worthy."
Don Pedro about Hero, 1.1
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"I neither feel how she should be loved, nor know how she should be worthy"
Benedick about Hero to Claudio and Don Pedro, 1.1
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"Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty."
Don Pedro, to Benedick, 1.1
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"That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks ... the fine is, for the which I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor."
Benedick, 1.1
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"I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love."
Don Pedro to Benedick, 1.1
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"With anger, with sickness, or with hunger ... not with love."
Benedick, 1.1
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"if ever the sensible Benedick bear (the yoke), pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and ... let them signify under my sign "Here you may see Benedick the married man.""
Benedick about planning never to marry, 1.1
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"No child but Hero; she's his only heir."
Don Pedro in response to Claudio's asking whether Leonato has any sons (probably to make sure Hero is rich), 1.1
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"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 am returned ... Come thronging soft and delicate desire, All prompting me how fair young Hero is"
Claudio to Don Pedro about Hero, 1.1
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"Thou wilt be like a lover presently And tire the hearer with a book of words. If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it, And I will break with her and with her father And thou shalt have her."
Don Pedro to Claudio, 1.1
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"How sweetly do you minister to love, That love's grief by his complexion! But lest my liking might too sudden seem, I would have salved it with a longer treatise."
Claudio to Don Pedro, 1.1
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"What need the bridge much broader than the flood?"
Don Pedro about Claudio's courtship of Hero, in response to Card 28, 1.1
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"There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit."
Don John, to Conrade, about why he is sad, 1.3
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"If not a present remedy, at least a present sufferance."
Conrade to Don John about the benefit of hearing reason, 1.3
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"I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause,and smile at no man's jests;eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry,and claw no man in his humour."
Don John, 1.3
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"I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any."
Don John, 1.3
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"I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking."
Don John, 1.3
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"Can you make no use of your discontent?"
Conrade to Don John, 1.3
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"Will it serve for any model to build mischief upon?"
Don John, 1.3
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"this may prove food to my displeasure ... if I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way."
Don John, 1.3
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"How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after."
Beatrice about Don John, 2.1
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"He is of a very melancholy disposition."
Hero about Don John, 2.1
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"the one is too like an image and says nothing, and the other ... evermore tattling."
Beatrice, 2.1. "the one" is Don John, "the other" is Benedick
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"such a man would win any women in the world, if 'a could get her good will."
Beatrice jokes about a man half Don John and half Benedick, 2.1
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"thou wilt never get thee a husband if thou be so shrewd of thou tongue."
Leonato to Beatrice, 2.1
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"for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening."
Beatrice saying that she thanks God she is not married, 2.1
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"it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say, "Father, as it please you." But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say, "Father, as it please me.""
Beatrice about Hero's choice of husband, 2.1
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"Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? To make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none. Adam's sons are my brethren, and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
Beatrice, 2.1
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"wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace; the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes
Beatrice to Hero in front of the others, 2.1
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repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinquepace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave."
Beatrice to Hero in front of the others, 2.1 (cont.)
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"he is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None but libertines delight in him, and the commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy; for he both pleases men and angers them"
Beatrice to Benedick about Benedick at the masked ball, 2.1
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"I would he had boarded me."
Beatrice to Benedick about Benedick at the masked ball, 2.1
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"if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at the next turning."
Beatrice about following people, 2.1
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Card 2

Front

Leonato, 1.1

Back

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

Card 3

Front

"her" is Beatrice, 1.1

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Leonato about Hero being his daughter, 1.1

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Benedick to Beatrice, 1.1

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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