William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
10 quotes
"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
"Such a mad marriage never was before."
"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
"Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!"
"She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me."
"This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.He that knows better how to tame a shrew,Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show."
"She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath,that in a twink she won me to her love.O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to seeHow tame, when men and women are alone,A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew."
"By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she."
"For I am born to tame you, Kate,And bring you from a wild Kate to a KateComfortable as other household Kates."
"Of all matches never was the like."