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Petruchio Quotes

“For I am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Comfortable as other household Kates.”

Shakespeare Taming Of The Shrew Petruchio

Book:The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“This is a way to kill a wife with kindness, And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. He that knows better how to tame a shrew, Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.”

Shakespeare Taming Of The Shrew Petruchio

Book:The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“Of all matches never was the like.”

Shakespeare Taming Of The Shrew Petruchio Katherine

Book:The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.”

Shakespeare Taming Of The Shrew Petruchio

Book:The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“Such a mad marriage never was before.”

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Book:The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath, that in a twink she won me to her love. O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to see How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.”

Shakespeare Taming Of The Shrew Petruchio

Book:The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

“Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; And where two raging fires meet together They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all: So I to her and so she yields to me; For I am rough and woo not like a babe.”

Book:The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew