“There’s small choice in rotten apples.”
- Hortensio, Act I scene I
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
- Katharina, Act IV scene 3
“Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i’ faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
“Come, come, you froward and unable worms! My mind hath been as big as one of you My heart as great, my reason haply more, To bandy word for word and frown for frown;”
- Katharina, Act V scene 1
“I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.” “Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.”
- Bianca, scene I
“Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you, That triumph thus upon my misery! Go, get thee gone, I say.”
- Katharina, Act 4, Scene 3
But now I see our lances are but straws, Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare, That seeming to be most which we indeed least are. Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot, And place your hands below your husband’s foot: In token of which duty, if he please, My hand is ready; may it do him ease.
- Katharina, Act V, Scene 2