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)

    “Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)