Here are just a couple of notable quotes from both the plays. To be quite honest, you can't go wrong with the writings of Shakespeare, and (almost) any single line can be chosen and still be hilarious, thoughtful, and fantastic, all at once.
I hope you'll come to hear all these quotes once or twice during the week of Shakespeare Camp!!
"Our talk must only be of Benedick. When I do name him, let it by thy part to praise him more than ever man did merit: my talk to thee must be how Benedick is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter is little Cupid's crafty arrow made, that only wounds by hearsay."
"I tell this tale vilely--I should first tell thee how the Prince, Claudio, and my master, planted and placed and possessed by my master Don John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter."
"O that he were here to write me down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass."
"Lord! I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I hath rather lie in the woollen."
"One Hero died defil'd, but I do live, and surely as I live, I am a maid."
"I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books."
"Though and I are too wise to woo peaceably."
"A very ancient and fish-like smell."
"My library was dukedom large enough."
"Four legs and two voices; a most delicate monster!"
"A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!"
"I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book."
"That, if I then had waked after long sleep, will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, the clouds methought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me that, when I waked, I cried to dream again."
"All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, like poison given to work a great time after, now 'gins to bite their spirits. I do beseech you that are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly, and hinder them from what this ecstasy may now provoke them to."
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