The Merry Wives of Windsor

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 4, sc. 5, l. 102-3.

QUOTATION: O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults,
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Anne, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 4, l. 31-2 (1602).

QUOTATION: I’ll ne’er be drunk, whilst I live, again, but in honest, civil, godly company.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Slender, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, sc. 1, l. 181-2.

QUOTATION: You love sack, and so do I; would you desire better sympathy?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Mrs. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 2, sc. 1, l. 8-10.

QUOTATION: A kind heart he hath. A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Mrs. Quickly, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 4, l. 102-4.

QUOTATION: God defend me from that Welsh fairy,
Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Sir John Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5.

QUOTATION: He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth; he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Host, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 2, l. 67-9.

QUOTATION: Ford. If money go before, all ways do lie open.
Falstaff. Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ford and Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 2, sc. 2, l. 168-70.

QUOTATION: Rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 5, l. 89-93.

QUOTATION: Heaven give you many, many merry days!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Mrs. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5, l. 240.

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