Shrews Quotes

• Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

  Washington Irving

  Husband, Home, Men

  Washington Irving (1835). “The Beauties”, p.15

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• For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Born, Household

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

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• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

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• Shrews are made, not born.

  Margaret Millar

  Born, Made

  Margaret Millar (1952). “Rose's last summer”, New York

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• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Kindness, Wife

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

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• There's small choice in rotten apples.

  William Shakespeare

  Apples, Choices, Liberty

  1593 Hortensio to Gremio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act1, sc.1, l.133-4.

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• My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Anger, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Two, Together

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1786). “The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere,: With the Notes of All the Various Commentators; Printed Complete from the Best Editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens...”

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• She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Taming, Affection

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions, with notes [&c.] by J.P. Collier. [With] Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays”, p.129

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• A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Taming, Fountain

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143

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• I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Simple

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 162

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• Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Farewell, Gentleman

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• Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Blow, Boys

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.33, Penguin

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• We will have rings and things and fine array

  William Shakespeare

  Taming Of The Shrew, Fine, Rings

  1593 Petruccio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 2, sc.1, l.319-20.

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• What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Taming, Tails

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.208, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

  Emma Donoghue

  Hands, Anchors, Punishment

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• Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminist, Taming, Causes

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

  Edna Ferber

  Savages, Taming, Married

  1958 Of Alaska. Ice Palace.

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• He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Anger, Degrees, Doe

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.455

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• Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Beautiful, Enemy, Venus

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Miscellaneous essays”, p.234

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• Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Morning, School, Hands

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• I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

  Ogden Nash

  Drinking, Truth Is, Said

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• I think I should be in a film called 'Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And nothing really happens. We just get out and have a lolly and then come back. But it'll be a musical the ship will be built out of my own hair.

  Noel Fielding

  Thinking, Space, Hair

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• So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?' 'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult as it may be to comprehend, there is a possibility you may have one.

  Carol Berg

  Heart, May, Slave

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