Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) Quotes

Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Much Ado About Nothing ended its run in 1970.

It features Kenneth Branagh as producer, Patrick Doyle in charge of musical score, and Roger Lanser as head of cinematography.

Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) is 110 minutes long. Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) is distributed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company.

The cast includes: Emma Thompson as Beatrice, Denzel Washington as Don Pedro, Keanu Reeves as Don John, Richard Clifford as Conrade, Richard Briers as Leonato, Robert Sean Leonard as Claudio, Brian Blessed as Antonio, Jimmy Yuill as Friar Francis, Patrick Doyle as All, and Ben Elton as Verges.

Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) Quotes

Emma Thompson as Beatrice

• (Emma Thompson) "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."

• (Emma Thompson) "Why then, God forgive me."
• (Unnamed) "What offence, sweet Beatrice?"
• (Emma Thompson) "You have stayed me in a happy hour, I was about to protest I loved you."
• (Unnamed) "And do it, with all thy heart."
• (Emma Thompson) "I love you with so much of my heart, that none is left to protest."

• (Emma Thompson) "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."

• (Unnamed) "Where is the lady Beatrice?"
• (Emma Thompson) "I answer to that name."

• (Emma Thompson) "I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick. Nobody marks you."
• (Unnamed) "What, my dear Lady Disdain. Are you yet living?"
• (Emma Thompson) "Is't possible Disdain should die whilst she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to Disdain when you come in her presence."

• (Emma Thompson) "Good Lord for alliance. Thus goes everyone to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry 'heigh-ho.' for a husband."
• (Denzel Washington) "Lady Beatrice, I will get you one."
• (Emma Thompson) "I would rather have one of your father's getting. Hath your grace not a brother like you? Your father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them."
• (Denzel Washington) "Will you have me, lady?"
• (Emma Thompson) "No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days. Your Grace is too costly to wear everyday. But I beseech your Grace to pardon me; for I was born to speak all mirth and no matter."
• (Denzel Washington) "Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour."
• (Emma Thompson) "No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born --"
• (Denzel Washington) "By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady."

• (Emma Thompson) "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever. One foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never. Then sigh not so but let them go and be you blithe and bonny, converting all your sounds of woe into hey nonny nonny."

• (Emma Thompson) "I pray you, who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother."
• (Unnamed) "He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio."
• (Emma Thompson) "O lord, he will hang upon him like a disease. He is sooner caught than the pestilence and the taker runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio. If he have caught the Benedick, 'twill cost him a thousand pound ere he be cured."

• (Unnamed) "I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"
• (Emma Thompson) "For them all together, which maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them: but for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?"
• (Unnamed) "Suffer love. a good epithet, I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will."
• (Emma Thompson) "In spite of your heart, I think. Alas poor heart, if you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for yours, for I will never love that which my friend hates"
• (Unnamed) "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."

• (Unnamed) "He has done good service, and a good soldier too, lady."
• (Emma Thompson) "And a good soldier TO a lady. But what is he to a lord?"
• (Unnamed) "A lord to a lord, a man to a man, stuffed with all honorable virtues."
• (Emma Thompson) "'Tis so indeed. He is no less than a stuffed man."

• (Unnamed) "Do not you love me?"
• (Emma Thompson) "Why no; no more than reason."
• (Unnamed) "Why then your uncle, the Prince and Claudio have been deceived; they swore you did."
• (Emma Thompson) "Do not you love me?"
• (Unnamed) "Why no; no more than reason."
• (Emma Thompson) "Why then my cousin, Margaret and Ursula are much deceived, for they did swear you did."
• (Unnamed) "They swore you were almost sick for me."
• (Emma Thompson) "They swore you were well-nigh dead for me."
• (Unnamed) "'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?"
• (Emma Thompson) "No, truly, but in friendly recompense."

• (Emma Thompson) "Kill Claudio."

• (Emma Thompson) "My cousin tells him in his ear, that he is in her heart."
• (Robert Sean Leonard) "And so she does, cousin."

• (Emma Thompson) "Against my will, I am sent to bid you come into dinner."
• (Unnamed) "Fair Beatrice, thank you for your pains."
• (Emma Thompson) "I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I would not have come."
• (Unnamed) "You take pleasure then in the message?"
• (Emma Thompson) "Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point. You have no stomach, signor? Fare you well."
• (Unnamed) "Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that."

• (Unnamed) "A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity."
• (Emma Thompson) "I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption."
• (Unnamed) "Peace. I will stop your mouth."

• (Emma Thompson) "Get thee to heaven, Beatrice, get thee to heaven. Hell's no place for maids."

• (Unnamed) "I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?"
• (Emma Thompson) "As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin."

• (Emma Thompson) "I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you."
• (Unnamed) "What, my dear Lady Disdain. are you yet living?"
• (Emma Thompson) "Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence."
• (Unnamed) "Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none."
• (Emma Thompson) "A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."
• (Unnamed) "God keep your ladyship still in that mind. so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face."
• (Emma Thompson) "Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such a face as yours were."
• (Unnamed) "Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher."
• (Emma Thompson) "A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours."
• (Unnamed) "I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's name; I have done."
• (Emma Thompson) "You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old."

Robert Sean Leonard as Claudio

• (Robert Sean Leonard) "Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?"
• (Unnamed) "I noted her not; but I looked on her."
• (Robert Sean Leonard) "Is she not a modest young lady?"
• (Unnamed) "Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?"
• (Robert Sean Leonard) "No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment."
• (Unnamed) "Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her."
• (Robert Sean Leonard) "Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me truly how thou likest her."
• (Unnamed) "Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?"
• (Robert Sean Leonard) "Can the world buy such a jewel?"
• (Unnamed) "Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this with a sad brow?"
• (Robert Sean Leonard) "In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on."
• (Unnamed) "I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such matter: there's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December. But I hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?"
• (Robert Sean Leonard) "I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the contrary, if Hero would be my wife."
• (Unnamed) "Is't come to this? Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?"

• (Robert Sean Leonard) "Done to death by slanderous tongues, was the Hero that here lies: Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, gives her fame which never dies. So the life that died with shame lives in death with glorious fame."

• (Robert Sean Leonard) "Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."

• (Robert Sean Leonard) "Can the world buy such a jewel?"
• (Unnamed) "Yea, and a case to put it into."

Richard Briers as Leonato

• (Richard Briers) "You will never run mad, niece."
• (Emma Thompson) "No, not till a hot January."

• (Unnamed) "A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help us. it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith, neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men are not alike; alas, good neighbour."
• (Richard Briers) "Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you."

• (Richard Briers) "Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?"

• (Richard Briers) "Being that I flow in grief, the smallest twine may lead me."

• (Richard Briers) "By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue."
• (Brian Blessed) "In faith, she's too curst."

• (Richard Briers) "For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the tooth-ache patiently."

Denzel Washington as Don Pedro

• (Unnamed) "O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the Prince's jester, and that I was duller than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest, with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the North star. So indeed all disquiet, horror, and perturbation follows her."
• (Denzel Washington) "Look, here she comes."
• (Unnamed) "Will your Grace command me any service to the world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I will fetch you a hair off the great Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pygmies, rather then hold three words conference with this Harpy. You have no employment for me?"
• (Denzel Washington) "None but to desire your good company."
• (Unnamed) "O God, sir, here's a dish I love not. I cannot endure my lady Tongue."

• (Denzel Washington) "Will you have me, lady?"
• (Emma Thompson) "No, my lord, unless I might have another for working days. Your grace is too costly to wear everyday."

• (Denzel Washington) "Thou wilt be like a lover presently, and tire the hearer with a book of words."

• (Denzel Washington) "Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
• (Richard Briers) "Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your grace."

Richard Clifford as Conrade

• (Richard Clifford) "You must hear reason, my lord."
• (Keanu Reeves) "And having heard it, what blessing brings it?"

• (Richard Clifford) "You are an ass. You are an ASS."

• (Richard Clifford) "You are an ass, you are an ass."
• (Unnamed) "Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years? 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."

Patrick Doyle as All

• (Unnamed) "Are you good men and true?"
• (Patrick Doyle) "Yea."
• (Unnamed) "Being chosen for the Prince's watch. This is your charge: You are to bid any man stand, in the prince's name."
• (Unnamed) "How if a' will not stand?"
• (Unnamed) "Why, then take no note of him, but let him go."
• (Ben Elton) "If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none of the prince's subjects."
• (Unnamed) "True. and we are to meddle with none but the prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in the streets."
• (Unnamed) "We will rather sleep than talk."
• (Unnamed) "Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend."

Jimmy Yuill as Friar Francis

• (Jimmy Yuill) "Come, lady: die to live."

Keanu Reeves as Don John

• (Keanu Reeves) "Even she- Leonato's Hero, Your Hero: every man's Hero."

• (Keanu Reeves) "I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and claw no man in his humour."
• (Richard Clifford) "Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest."
• (Keanu Reeves) "I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and seek not to alter me."

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