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:

    “Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “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)