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Shrews Quotes

I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

Ogden Nash
Drinking, Shrews, Truth Is

Shrews are made, not born.

Margaret Millar
Shrews, Born, Made
Margaret Millar (1952). “Rose's last summer”, New York

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

William Shakespeare
Women, Taming, Shrews
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.

William Shakespeare
Taming, Shrews, Born
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

Horace
Home, Evil, Shrews

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

Simone de Beauvoir
Feminist, Taming, Shrews
Source: www.iaphitalia.org

We will have rings and things and fine array

William Shakespeare
Shrews, Taming Of The Shrew, Fine
1593 Petruccio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 2, sc.1, l.319-20.

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

William Shakespeare
Gentleman, Taming, Shrews
William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.208, Cengage Learning EMEA

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me.

William Shakespeare
Moving, Taming, Shrews
William Shakespeare (1842). “The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions, with notes [&c.] by J.P. Collier. [With] Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays”, p.129

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

Jonathan Swift
Beautiful, Enemy, Shrews
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Miscellaneous essays”, p.234

Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

Edna Ferber
Savages, Taming, Shrews
1958 Of Alaska. Ice Palace.

So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?' 'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult as it may be to comprehend, there is a possibility you may have one.

Carol Berg
Heart, Shrews, May

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