Taming of the Shrew quotes

"we came in with Richard Conqueror"

"it will be pastime passing excellent"

"he shall think...he is no less than what we say he is"

"Adonis", "Cytherea", "Io", "Daphne"

"by my fay, a goodly nap"

"Madam, undress you, and come now to bed"

"fair Padua, nursery of arts"

"no profit grows where no pleasure is taken"

"To cart her, rather. She's too rough for me."

"is it your will to make a stale of me amongst these mates?"

"no mates for you, unless you were of gentler, milder mold"

"to comb your noddle with a three-legged stool"

"here's some good pastime toward; that wench is stark mad or wonderful froward"

"in the other's silence do I see maid's mild behaviour and sobriety"

"it is best put finger in the eye"

"I burn, I pine, I perish"

"her older sister is so curst and shrewd"

"I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; if wealthily then happily in Padua"

"for he fears none"

"the one as famous for a scolding tongue / as is the other for beauteous modesty"

"so well I know my duty to my elders"

"will you not suffer me?"

"now I see she is your treasure, she must have a husband"

"by report I know him well"

"now, by the world, that is a lusty wench"

"you are called plain Kate, and bonny Kate, and sometimes Kate the curst"

"what, with my tongue in your tail?"

"will you, nill you, I will marry you"

"I am he born to tame you, Kate"

"one half lunatic, a mad ruffian and a swearing Jack"

"Greybeard, thy love doth freeze"

"I am no breeching scholar in the schools"

"but learn my lessons as I please myself"

"Old fashions please me best. I am not so nice to change true rules for odd inventions."

"now must the world point at poor Katherina"

"a monster, a very monster in apparel"

"to me she's married, not unto my clothes"

"why, he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend"

"such a mad marriage never was before!"

"I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels... my anything"

"here she stands, touch here whoever dare"

"that being mad herself, she's madly mated"

"by this reck'ning, he is more shrew than she"

"he kills her in her own humour"

"my falcon now is sharp and passing empty"

"She ate no meat today, nor none shall eat. Last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not,"

"I intend that all is done in reverend care of her"

"This is a way to kill a wife with kindness. And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour"

"he'll have a lusty widow now that shall be wooed and wedded in a day"

"I...am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep"
"he does it under the name of perfect love"

"I am sure, sweet Kate, that this kindness merits thanks"

"my tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it will break"

"I will be free even to the uttermost, as I please, in words"

"I like the cap, and it I will have, or I will have none"

"take no unkindness of his hasty words"

"It shall be what o'clock I say it is"

"Lucentio here doth love my daughter, and she loves him, or both dissemble deeply their affections"

"I may, and will, if she be so contented"

"be it moon, sun or what you please...henceforth I vow it shall be so for me"

"young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet"

"Nay, I will give thee a kiss. Now pray thee, love, stay"

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."

"A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down"

"he whose wife is most obedient...shall win the wager"

"she is busy, and she cannot come"

"She will not come. She bids you come to her."

"peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life...to be short, what's not that's sweet and happy"

"that cap of yours becomes you not. Of with that bauble, throw it underfoot."

"you're mocking. We will have no telling."

"thy lord, thy king, thy governer"
"thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign"

"for thy maintenance commits his body to painful labour"

"why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth"

"my hand is ready, may it do him ease"

"Come Kate, we'll to bed. We three are married, but you two are sped."

"tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so"