Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Marriage and Wealth Quotes
SIR HUGHIt is that fery person for all the 'orld, as just as you will
desire. And seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold and
silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed (Got deliver to a
joy...
Jealousy Quotes
NYMMy humor shall not cool. I will incense Ford to deal with
poison; I will possess him with yellowness, for this revolt of
mine is dangerous. That is my true humor. (1.3.102-105)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
FALSTAFFThere is no remedy. I must cony-catch, I must shift. (1.3.31-32)
Society and Class Quotes
SHALLOWSir Hugh, persuade me not. I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it. If he were twenty Sir John
Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, Esquire. (1.1.1-4)
Gender Quotes
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Language and Communication Quotes
SLENDERI had rather than forty shillings I had my book of Songs
and Sonnets here. (1.1.193-194)
Love Quotes
Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks
small like a woman? (1.1.40-41)