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  • 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.

    1603-4 Emilia to Desdemona. Othello, act 4, sc.3, l.92-5.
  • Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

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

    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [116]
  • 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, Roma Gill (2001). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.43, Barron's Educational Series
  • 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, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.127, Cambridge University Press
  • A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

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

    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]
  • 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 (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.241
  • 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.

    Fire  
    William Shakespeare (1836). “Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: der Kaufmann von Venedig ... mit untergelegtem kritischen commentare, einer einleitung und einem anhang, enthaltend”, p.60
  • The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

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

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

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media
  • Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

    1609 Leontes. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.199-201.
  • You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

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

    War  
    William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.570
  • This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

    'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]
  • Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

    Men   Two  
    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
  • '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, 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
  • 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.

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

    Men  
    "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".
  • You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 285
  • In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

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

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

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

    Kings  
    William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides
  • I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

    Country  
    William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.147
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