William Shakespeare Quotes About Wife

• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Spring, Women

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Kindness, Wife

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

• In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
  Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Fate, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.73

• I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Maids, May

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 1, l. 83

• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

• Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Husband, Smell

  1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.

• You are my true and honourable wife;
  As dear to me as the ruddy drops
  That visit my sad heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Heart, Wife

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 285

• The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Coriolanus”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

• Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Art, Wife

  1598 Benedick to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.4, l.121-2.

• As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Giving, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.56

• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
  You may partake of any thing we say:
  We speak no treason, man; we say the King
  Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
  Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
  We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
  A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
  And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Queens, Kings

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

• 'Tis not to make me jealous
  To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
  Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
  Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Play, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, ROMEO and JULIET. HAMLET, PRINCE of DENMARK. OTHELLO, the MOOR of VENICE. VOLUME the TENTH”, p.361

• You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Wife, Hearing

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.43, Barron's Educational Series

• I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Wife, Mind

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [116]

• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

• the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: der Kaufmann von Venedig ... mit untergelegtem kritischen commentare, einer einleitung und einem anhang, enthaltend”, p.60

• A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Light

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 129

• Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Despair, Should

  1609 Leontes. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.199-201.

• War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Dark, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.570

• You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Orange, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.330

• I crave fit disposition for my wife;
  Due reference of place, and exhibition;
  With such accommodation, and besort,
  As levels with her breeding.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Exhibitions, Levels

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.241

• Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1559

• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Dust, Wife

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

• Let us our lives, our souls,
  Our debts, our careful wives,
  Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Children, Wife

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [250]

• As for my wife,
  I would you had her spirit in such another;
  The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle
  You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Pace, World

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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