Class and social order

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

How many gentleman have you lost in this action?... A victory is twice itself, when the achiever brings home full numbers.”

Leonato

Act 1 Scene 1

“Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should remain: but when you depart from me, sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”

Leonato

Act 1 Scene 1

“[Leonarto has] no child but Hero, she’s his only heir.”

Don Pedro

Act 1 Scene 1

“The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be not wooed in good time: if the prince be too important, tell him there is measure in everything, and so dance out the answer.”

Beatrice

Act 2 Scene 1

“We must follow the leaders... if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at the next turning.”

Beatrice

Act 2 Scene 1

“Unless I might have another for working days, your grace is too costly to wear every day”

Beatrice

Act 2 Scene 1

“If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none of the prince’s subjects.”

Verges

Act 3 Scene 3

“True, and they are to meddle with none but the prince’s subjects: you shall also make no noise in the streets, for, for the watch to babble and to talk, is most tolerable and not to be endured.”

Dogberry

Act 3 Scene 3

“This man said, sir, that Don John the prince’s brother was a villain.”

Seacoal

Act 4 Scene 2

“Write down, Prince John a villain, why this is flat perjury to call a prince’s brother villain.”

Dogberry

Act 4 Scene 2

“My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you: I must discontinue your company, your brother the bastard is fled from Messina, you have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady”

Benedick

Act 5 Scene 1