The Merry Wives of Windsor Quotes

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Why, then the world ’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“if money go before, all ways do lie open.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“I assure thee: setting the attractions of my
good parts aside I have no other charms.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the king’s English.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“for they say, if money go before, all
ways do lie open.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated

“setting the attractions of my
good parts aside I have no other charms”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“he cares not what he puts into the press, when he would put us two: I had rather be a giantess and lie under Mount Pelion. ”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he
dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he
speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will
carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he
will carry't.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“You do amaze her: hear the truth of it.
You would have married her most shamefully,
Where there was no proportion held in love.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,
Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.
The offence is holy that she hath committed;
And this deceit loses the name of craft,
Of disobedience, or unduteous title,
Since therein she doth evitate and shun
A thousand irreligious cursed hours,
Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated

“And given to fornications, and to taverns and sack
and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and
swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles?”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated

“The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated

“Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep
their limbs whole and hack our English.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated

“What, the sword and the word! do you study them
both, master parson?”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated

“What a damned Epicurean rascal is this!”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Annotated

“Sir John,
To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word;
For he to-night shall lie with Mistress Ford.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor