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:

    “A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “To get through their days, nervous natures such as mine have various “speeds” as do automobiles. There are uphill and difficult day which take an eternity to climb, and downhill days which can be quickly descended.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)