You’re a Pain
What other would you expect?
You are strangely troublesome.
—Henry VIII,
Act V, Scene iii

What other would you expect?
You are strangely troublesome.
—Henry VIII,
Act V, Scene iii

He so takes on yonder…
so rails against all married mankind,
so curses all Eve’s daughters of what complexion soever.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act IV Scene ii

I think the best way were to entertain him with hope,
till the wicked fire of lust have melted him in his own grease.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act II, Scene i

Why, then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act II, Scene ii

When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act V, Scene v

I think the devil will not have me damned,
lest the oil that’s in me should set hell on fire.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act V, Scene v

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state.
-Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act V, Scene v