Mistress Quickly is an inn-keeper who appears in four plays by William Shakespeare:
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
Famous quotes containing the words mistress and/or quickly:
“A new mistress is like new sheets. A little bit stiff but washings to come.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)
“This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint
My pilgrimages last mile; and my race
Idly, yet quickly runne, hath this last pace,
My spans last inch, my minutes last point,
And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoynt
My body, and soule, and I shall sleepe a space,”
—John Donne (1572–1631)