Benedick
Much Ado About Nothing
Quotes spoken by the character Benedick
Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?
Read the QuoteClaudio
Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of
Signior Leonato?
Benedick
I noted her not, but I looked on her.
Claudio
Is she not a modest young lady?
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
Benedick
Do you question me as an honest man
should do,
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Ho, now you strike like the blind man
Read the QuoteHo, now you strike like the blind man. ‘Twas the boy that stole your meat, and you’ll beat the post.Metaphor
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I do much wonder that one man
Read the QuoteI do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors
to love, will, after he hath laughed at such
shallow follies in others, become the argument of
his own scorn by falling in love—and such a man is
Claudio. I have known when there was no music
with him but the drum and the fife,
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A man loves the meat in his youth
Read the QuoteA man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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I do love nothing in the world so well as you
Read the QuoteBenedick
I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?
Beatrice
As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you, but believe me not, and yet I lie not; I confess nothing,
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Kill Claudio!
Read the QuoteBeatrice
Kill Claudio!
Benedick
Ha! Not for the wide world.
Beatrice
You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
She begins to exit.
Benedick
Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
O that I were a man for his sake! Or
that I had any friend would be a man for my sake!
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor
Read the QuoteIn a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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You break jests as braggards do their blades
Read the QuoteYou break jests as braggards do their bladesSimili, which, God be thank’d, hurt not.
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If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb
Read the QuoteIf a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weepsAnalogy.
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Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably
Read the QuoteThou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
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