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)

    “I didn’t lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.”
    —Philip Dunne (1908–1992)