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:

    “God bless the master of this house,
    Likewise the mistress too:”
    —Unknown. God Bless the Master of This House (l. 1–2)

    “Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.”
    —Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886)