Wenches Quotes

• Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Flames, House

  1596-7 Prince Harry to Falstaff. Henry IV Part One, act1, sc.2, l.6-12.

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• The cowslip is a country wench.

  Thomas Hood

  Country

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.213

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• The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
  As is the razor's edge invisible.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Razors, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.36

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• I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Sleep, Fighting

  The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

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• Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Country

  'The Jew of Malta' (c.1592) act 4, sc. 1

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• Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

  William Shakespeare

  Gears, Fortune, Wells

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Merchant of Venice: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.68, Broadview Press

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• After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, 4th Of July, Men

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1733

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• Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.

  Jim Butcher

  Women, Eye, Yellow

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• The river Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rain, Cities, Rivers

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• In Koln, a town of monks and bones,
  And pavement fang'd with murderous stones,
  And rags and hags, and hideous wenches,
  I counted two-and-seventy stenches,
  All well defined, and several stinks!
  Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
  The River Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cities, Two, Rivers

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Long, World

  William Shakespeare, Lindsay Price (2002). “Taming of the Shrew”, p.13, Theatrefolk

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• For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

  Timothy Zahn

  Change, Smile, Rocks

  Timothy Zahn (2012). “The Icarus Hunt”, p.346, Spectra

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• I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Pain, Envy

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• Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.

  William Mortensen

  Stupid

  William Mortensen (1937). “The Model: A Book on the Problems of Posing”

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• You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you." He surveyed her with mocking green eyes. "You think you're the first high-kick wench I've ever had? I used to have blue-blooded bitches like you pay me to do this. You've gotten it for free.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Thinking, Blue

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• I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.

  Julie Garwood

  Hurt, Falling In Love, Attitude

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• Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life. Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away. "Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them. "You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?" "A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Eye, Pigs, Hands

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• Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Taming, Kiss Me

  1593 Katherine.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 5, sc.2, l.185.

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• The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.

  E. B. White

  New York, Eye, Dust

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• I do have some leftover chicken and pasta. (Grace) And wine?...That’s acceptable (Julian) Look, buster, I’m not your cooking wench. Mess with me and I’ll feed you Alpo. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wine, Grace, Cooking

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• Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

  Eloisa James

  School, Wish, Together

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• Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Running, Dog

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• Acheron kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Rest. We'll be back when he needs you." He watched her climb into bed before he took his nephew down to his room. "Well, it appears to be just the two of us, little one. What say you we get naked, drunk and find us some wenches?" The baby actually smiled up at him as if he understood. Acheron nodded. "So that's it, eh? Barely a month old and you're already lecherous. You are your father's son.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Father, Son

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.206, Hachette UK

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• Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!

  Meg Cabot

  Enemy, Looks, Shame

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Grave Doubts”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.

  George Herbert

  Young, Heed

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