25 quotes with full 6-part analysis
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me”
Beatrice · Act 1, Scene 1
“Kill Claudio”
Beatrice · Act 4, Scene 1
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever”
Balthasar's Song · Act 2, Scene 3
“O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they d…”
Claudio · Act 4, Scene 1
“O that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace”
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you — is not that strange?”
Benedick · Act 4, Scene 1
“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were ma…”
Benedick · Act 2, Scene 3
“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably”
Benedick · Act 5, Scene 2
“Man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion”
Benedick · Act 5, Scene 4
“Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! No glory lives behind the back of s…”
Beatrice · Act 3, Scene 1
“Of this matter is little Cupid's crafty arrow made, that only wounds by hearsay”
Hero · Act 3, Scene 1
“Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?”
Hero · Act 4, Scene 1
“One Hero died defiled, but I do live, and surely as I live, I am a maid”
Hero · Act 5, Scene 4
“And seemed I ever otherwise to you?”
“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say…”
Claudio · Act 2, Scene 1
“Give not this rotten orange to your friend”
“Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood”
“I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a…”
Don John · Act 1, Scene 3
“I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace”
“Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero”
Don John · Act 3, Scene 2
“If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way”
“There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her; they never meet b…”
Leonato · Act 1, Scene 1
“Mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, and mine that I was proud on — mine …”
Leonato · Act 4, Scene 1
“Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?”
“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”
Leonato · Act 5, Scene 1