Much Ado About Nothing

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“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

Act 1 Scene 3

I know you well enough, you are Signor Antonio...

I know you by the waggling of your head.”

Ursula

Act 2 Scene 1

“At a word, I am not... To tell you true, I counterfeit him.”

Antonio

Act 2 Scene 1

“Thus answer I in the name of Benedick, /But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio”

Claudio

Act 2 Scene 1

“Out on thy seeming, I will write against it! / You seem to me as Dian in her orb, / As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown: / But you are more intemperate in your blood, / Than Venus, or those pampered animals, / That rage in savage sensuality.”

Claudio

Act 4 Scene 1

“Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie, / Who loved her so, that speaking of her foulness, / Washed it with tears?”

Leonato

Act 4 Scene 1

“One Hero died defiled but I do live, / And surely as I live, I am a maid.”

Hero

Act 5 Scene 4