Much Ado About Nothing

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signor Leonato?”

Claudio

Act 1 Scene 1

“I noted her not, but I looked on her.”

Benedick

Act 1 Scene 1

“Nay pray thee, come; / Or if thou wilt hold longer argument, / Do it in notes.”

Don Pedro

Act 2 Scene 3

“Note this before my notes: / There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.”

Balthasar

Act 2 Scene 3

“Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks – Note notes, forsooth, and nothing!”

Don Pedro

Act 2 Scene 3

“For look where Beatrice like a lapwing runs / Close to the ground, to hear our conference.”

Hero

Act 3 Scene 1

“You are to bid any man stand, in the Prince’s name............... Why then take no note of him, but let him

go.”

Dogberry

Act 3 Scene 3

“Thou knowest that the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak is nothing to a man.”

Borachio

Act 3 Scene 3

“Hear me a little, / For I have only been silent so long / And given way unto this course of fortune / By noting of the lady.”

Friar Francis

Act 4 Scene 1