SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - The Merry Wives of Windsor

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merry Wives of Windsor

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

Shallow: Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog; can there be more said? He is good and fair.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 1, p. 74  

Mistress Quickly: The young man is an honest man.

Doctor Caius: What shall be honest man do in my closet? Dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 78  

Mistress Quickly: Truly an honest gentleman; but Anne lives him not; for I know Anne's mind as well as another does.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 79  

Shallow: I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so wide of his own respect.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 86  

Host of the Garter Inn: Shall I lose my doctor? No; he gives me potions and the motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir Hugh? No; he gives me the proverbs and the no-verbs.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 86  

 Quickly: A kind heart he hath. A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 4, p. 91  

Host of the Garter Inn: They are gone but to meet the Duke, villian. Do not say they be fled; Germans are honest men.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 4, Scene 5, p. 98  

John Falstaff: That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, p. 99  

 John Falstaff: I'll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged, and I will deliver his wife into your hand.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, p. 99  

Mrs. Page: But 'tis no matter, better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-ache.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 3, p. 100  

Ford: In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 3, p. 102