Quotes from book

Much Ado About Nothing

“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”

“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”

“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”

“For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.”

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”

“LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.

DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.”

“Beatrice: He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me; and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”

“Yes, faith; 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.”

“Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.”

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.”

“Done to death by slanderous tongue”

“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”

“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”

“If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!”