Taming of the Shrew Quotes

Act 1

Thinks't thou, Hortensio, though her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell?
-Gremio

Knock you here, sir?  Why, sir, what am I, sir, that I should knock you here, sir?
-Grumio

Villain, I say, knock me at this gate and rap me well or I'll knock your knave's pate.
-Petruchio

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.
-Petruchio

Why, nothing comes amiss so money comes withal.
-Grumio

What, this gentleman will out-talk us all.
-Gremio

Act 2

Believe me, sister, of all the men alive I never yet beheld that special face which I could fancy more than any other.
-Bianca

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

Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.
-Hortensio

Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench!
-Petruchio

Asses are made to bear and so are you.
Women are made to bear and so are you.
-Kate/Petruchio

If I be waspish, beware my sting.
-Kate

An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.
-Gremio

Act 3

The bass is right; 'tis the base knave that jars.
-Hortensio as Litio

What mockery will it be to want the bridegroom when the priest attends to speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!
-Baptista

Such a mad marriage never was before.
Hark, hark, I hear the minstrels play.
-Gremio

Ay, sir, they be ready; the oats have eaten the horses.
-Grumio

Act 4

Where is the foolish knave I sent before?
Here, sir, as foolish as I was before.
-Petruchio/Grumio

You whoreson villain, will you let it fall?
-Petruchio

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, and thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humor.
-Petruchio

What, did he marry me to famish me?
-Kate

Why, so this gallant will command the sun.
-Hortensio

Good Lord, how brightly shines the moon.
The moon?  The sun.  It is not moonlight now.
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
-Petruchio/Kate

Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, and be it moon or sun or what you please.
-Kate

Why, how now, Kate, I hope thou art not mad.  This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered, and not a maiden, as thou sayest he is.
-Petruchio

Act 5

Softly and swiftly, sir, for the priest is ready.
-Biondello

Come hither, crack-hemp.
-Vincentio

Help, help, help!  Here's a madman will murder me.
-Biondello

Deny him, forswear him, or we are all undone.
-Biondello

Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow and dart not scornful glances from those eyes to wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.  It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the mead...A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, and while it is so, none so dry or thirsty will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.
-Kate

Why, there's a wench!  Come on and kiss me, Kate.
-Petruchio

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