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:

    “So, when my mistress shall be seen
    In form and beauty of her mind,
    By virtue first, then choice, a queen,”
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

    “A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)