Taming Of The Shrew Quotes

“He kills her in her own humor.”
― Shakespeare

“She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“For I am born to tame you, Kate,
And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate
Comfortable as other household Kates.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Such a mad marriage never was before.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath,
that in a twink she won me to her love.
O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to see
How tame, when men and women are alone,
A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for you
As for my patron, stand you so assured,
As firmly as yourself were in still place -
Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
O this learning, what a thing it is!”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Of all matches never was the like.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“I come to wive it wealthily in Padua”
― William Shakespeare

“I can't see why feminists don't demand that The Taming of the Shrew be cancelled and expelled from libraries. It's diabolical, even for those times.”
― Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

“Of all mad matches never was the like
Being mad herself, she’s madly mated.”
― William Shakespeare

“It doesn’t matter who ‘rules.’ Petruchio and Katherina are in love and so long as love exists, ‘ruler’ and ‘ruled’ lose their meaning. Petruchio looked only for money, and got love, too. Katherina looked for nothing and got love. It is completely happy ending.”
― Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2