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:

    “What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?”
    —Sir William Osler (1849–1919)

    “The intellectual damn
    Will nurse your half-hurt. Quickly you are well.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)