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  • He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

    Men   Beard   Youth  
    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.107
  • Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

    Pain   Knives   May  
    William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin
  • Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

    "Love's labour's lost. Much ado about nothing. Merchant of Venice".
  • I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

    Women   Grieving   Wish  
    William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 2, l. [28]
  • I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

    Sex   Smart   Fighting  
  • I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

    Love   Heart   Protest  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 2, l. [283]
  • I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

    Art   Uncles   Eye  
    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.138
  • If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!

    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]
  • I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.

    Sassy   Talking   Wonder  
  • Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

    Grieving   Dust   Wife  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]
  • I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

    Love   Dream   World  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 1, l. [271]
  • Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)

    William Shakespeare (2014). “Much ado about nothing with essential questions”, p.85, Lulu.com
  • For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.123
  • Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

    1598 Benedick, of Hero. Much Ado About Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.166-7.
  • 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.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.83, BookCaps Study Guides
  • ...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.

  • Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now... (Much Ado About Nothing)

    Sweet   Thee   Benedick  
    William Shakespeare (2005). “Much Ado About Nothing: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.78, Prestwick House Inc
  • DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

    Mother   Heart   Grace  
    William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Then is courtesy a turncoat. But 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. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

    Dog   Heart   Men  
    William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford
  • I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

    Horse   Wish   Tongue  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.80, BookCaps Study Guides
  • What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

    Should   Dear   Benedick  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.

    Ceilings   Lord   Divine  
  • A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

    Heart   Good Day   Hands  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.278, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

    Horse   Writing   Men  
  • I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.79, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

    William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA
  • LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce 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.

    Uncles   Husband   Niece  
    William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.856, BookBaby
  • In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

    Marriage   Savages   Yoke  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [271]
  • When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]
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