The Merry Wives of Windsor

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5, l. 153-4.

QUOTATION: Heaven give thee joy!
What cannot be eschewed must be embraced.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5, l. 236-7.

QUOTATION: Why then, the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Pistol, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 2, sc. 2, l. 3-4.

QUOTATION: I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Mrs. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 2, l. 19-20.

QUOTATION: Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, sc. 1, l. 196-7.

QUOTATION: I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5, l. 119.

QUOTATION: The devil take one party and his dam the other!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 4, sc. 5, l. 106-7.

QUOTATION: The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Sir John Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 5.

QUOTATION: I will make an end of my dinner; there’s pippins and cheese to come.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Evans, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, sc. 2, l. 11-13.

QUOTATION: This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 1, l. 2-3.

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