This download includes ten posters featuring key quotations from William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, plus a worksheet (in PDF and Word doc formats) with these quotes on for students to make notes on as you read through the play.

Key Much Ado About Nothing quotations

• “I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.” “No. An he were, I would burn my study.” – Messenger and Beatrice, Act I, Scene I
• In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke – Don John, Act I, Scene I
• 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 II, Scene I
• Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love – Claudio, Act II, Scene I
• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never – Balthasar, Act II, Scene III

More Much Ado About Nothing quotes

• They say the lady is fair. ‘Tis a truth, I can bear them witness. And virtuous—’tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise, but for loving me. By my troth, it is no addition to her wit— nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her” – Benedick, Act II, Scene III
• When I said I would l die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married – Benedick, Act II, Scene III
• Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps – Hero, Act III, Scene I
• I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest – Beatrice, Act IV, Scene I
• O Hero! What a Hero hadst thou been If half thy outward graces had been placed About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart! But fare thee well, most foul, most fair, farewell Thou pure impiety and impious purity. For thee I’ll lock up all the gates of love, And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, And never shall it more be gracious – Claudio, Act IV, Scene I

For more quote posters and worksheets for Shakespeare plays check out our collection. For Don John quotes and analysis, check out our post by teacher Helen Mears.

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