Taming Quotes

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

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

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.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

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

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?

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.

Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

We will have rings and things and fine array

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

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

He kills her in her own humor.

Time hath a taming hand.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

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

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

I didn't need taming. I needed saving.