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)

    ““Oh, nonio, Antonio!
    You’re far too bleak and bonio!
    And all that I wish,
    You singular fish,
    Is that you will quickly begonio.””
    —Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850–1943)