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:

    “Trying to avoid
    Ideas, as in this poem? But we
    Go back to them as to a wife, leaving
    The mistress we desire?”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
    His armory would quickly be empty.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)