Quotations: Taming of the Shrew
“I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. If wealthily, then happily in Padua.”
Petruchio, Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 74,75
“she is too rough for me”
Grumio referring to Katherina, Act 1, Scene 1, Line 55
“Her sister is so curst and shrewd.”
Lucentio referring to Katherina, Act 1, Scene 1, Line 178
“Faith Gentlemen, now I play a merchant’s part, and venture madly on a desperate mart”
Baptista while Lucentio and Hortensio bargain for Bianca, Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 328, 329
“He of both that can assure my daughter greatest dower shall have Bianca’s love.”
Baptista while Lucentio and Hortensio bargain for Bianca, Act2, Scene 1, Lines 344-346
“Why then the maid is mine, from all the world from your firm promise, Grumio is out-vied.”
Tranio as Lucentio, after ‘winning’ Bianca, Act2, Scene1, Lines 387,388
“Come, come, you wasp, I’l faith you are too angry”
Petruchio to Katherina, Act 2, Scene 1, Line 213
“what, with my tongue in your tail?”
Petruchio to katherina, Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 222, 223
“thy lord, thy king, thy governor”
Katherina on husbands, Act 5, Scene 2, Line 139
“such a duty as the subject owes the prince, even such, a women oweth to her husband”.
Katherina on Husbands, Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 156, 157
“place your hands below your husband’s foot. In token of which duty, if he please, my hand is ready, may it do him ease”
Katherina on husbands, Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 178, 179, 180
“Why give him gold enough and marry him to
a puppet or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.”
Grumio referring to Petuchio, Act1, Scene 2, Lines 77-78
“What, will you suffer not me? Nay, now I see she is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance barefoot on her wedding day.”
Katherina to Baptista, Act 2, Scene 1, Line 31-33
“’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.”
Lucentio referring to Katherina’s taming, Act 5, Scene 2, Line 190
“I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels, she is my house.”
Petruchio on wives,