You know Falstaff’s bluster, but can you tell the difference between his phoney flattery and the real frustrations of the townspeople of Windsor? Many students get the Host’s insults mixed up with the witty barbs of the wives themselves. Test your knowledge with our The Merry Wives Of Windsor Quote Identification Quiz. Who said these famous lines?
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The Merry Wives Of Windsor Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.”
- “I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.”
- “See now how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent.”
- “This jealousy is for a precious creature: as she’s fair, so is she faithful.”
- “Thou art a tyrant to say so: thou hast no power to charm.”
- “Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a barrow of butcher’s offal?”
- “Discretion is the better part of valor.”
- “I smell a man of middle-earth.”
- “By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.”
- “Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.”
- “The world shall know of it: ’tis not well that I am thus wronged.”
- “Marry, this is not well, Master Ford; this wrongs you.”
- “Let the sky rain potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green Sleeves.”
- “I will dance and eat plums at your wedding.”
- “I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox: his thefts were too open.”
- “I love not the humour of bread and cheese; and there’s the humour of it.”
- “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
- “Your husband’s coming hither, woman, your husband’s coming!”
- “I am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh flannel.”
- “Good hearts, what ado here is to bring you together!”
- “I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”
- “I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter than parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese.”
- “Divide me like a bribed buck, each a haunch.”
- “Out upon’t! what a damned Epicurean rascal is this!”
- “The devil would think it but an old woman.”
- “I’ll warrant she hath a thousand of these letters.”
- “Go home, go home; husband, go home quickly.”
- “By my faith, you are a wise gentleman.”
- “He woos both high and low, both rich and poor.”
- “I am glad the fat knight is not here.”