Mistress Quickly

Mistress Quickly is an inn-keeper who appears in four plays by William Shakespeare:

  • Henry IV, Part 1
  • Henry IV, Part 2
  • Henry V
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor


Famous quotes containing the words mistress and/or quickly:

    “Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “But O, young beauty of the woods,
    Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers,
    Gather the flowers, but spare the buds;
    Lest Flora, angry at thy crime
    To kill her infants in their prime,
    Do quickly make the example yours;
    And ere we see,
    Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)