A selection of well-known quotes from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Two women pull at the strings of a lady's corset
Ursula (Rachel Kempson), Hero (Geraldine McEwan) and Margaret (Zoe Caldwell) in Much Ado About Nothing, 1958, directed by Douglas Seale.
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There's a skirmish of wit between them. 
(Leonato, Act 1 Scene 1)

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. 
(Don Pedro, Act 1 Scene 1)

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.
(Beatrice, Act 2 Scene 1)

As merry as the day is long. 
(Beatrice, Act 2 Scene 1)

Speak low if you speak love. 
(Don Pedro, Act 2 Scene 1)

Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love.
(Claudio, Act 2 Scene 1)

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
(Benedick, Act 2 Scene 1)

I will not be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster.
(Benedick, Act 2 Scene 3)

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
(Benedick, Act 2 Scene 3)

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
(Hero, Act 3, Scene 1)

Everyone cannot master a grief but he that has it. 
(Benedick, Act 3 Scene 2)

Are you good men and true?
(Dogberry, Act 3 Scene 3)

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
(Beatrice, Act 4 Scene 1)

For there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the toothache patiently.
(Leonato, Act 5 Scene 1)

In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
(Benedick, Act 5 Scene 1)

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
(Benedick, Act 5 Scene 2)

Peace! I will stop your mouth.
(Leonato, Act 5 Scene 3)