Quotes from The Taming of the Shrew

16 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1591

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

Petruchio, Act V, Scene II
  1. This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

    Petruchio, Act IV, Scene I
  2. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.

    Petruchio, Act I, Scene II
  3. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign.

    Katherina, Act V, Scene II
  4. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything.

    Petruchio, Act III, Scene II
  5. Out of their saddles into the dirt; and thereby hangs a tale.

    Grumio, Act IV, Scene I
  6. If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

    Katherina, Act II, Scene I
  7. Fie, fie! Unknit that threatening unkind brow, And dart not scornful glances from those eyes.

    Katherina, Act V, Scene II
  8. And, will you, nill you, I will marry you.

    Petruchio, Act II, Scene I
  9. My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

    Katherine, The Taming of the Shrew
  10. There's small choice in rotten apples.

    William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
  11. Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

    Grumio, The Taming of the Shrew
  12. Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio, If I achieve not this young modest girl.

    Lucentio, Act I, Scene I
  13. No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.

    Tranio, Act I, Scene I
  14. I'll not budge an inch, boy: let him come, and kindly.

    Christopher Sly, Induction, Scene I
  15. Therefore paucas pallabris; let the world slide. Sessa!

    Christopher Sly, Induction, Scene I