Quotes from book

Much Ado About Nothing

“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”

“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.
-Benedick (Much Ado)”

“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”

“Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?”

“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.”

“Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.”

“Love me!… Why?”

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

“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?”

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”

“Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”

“For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.”

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”