The Taming of The Shrew (1967)

Elizabeth Taylor: Katharina

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Quotes 

• Katherina : Of all things living, a man's the worst!

• Katherina : I knew you at the first. You were a moveable!

  Petruchio : Why, what's a moveable?

  Katherina : A stool like this!

  [she kicks out the stool he was sitting on, and he falls on the floor] 

  Petruchio : Then sit on me!

  [he pulls her down on his lap] 

  Katherina : [hitting at Petruchio]  Our asses are made to bear and so are you!

  Petruchio : Women are made to bear and so are you!

  Katherina : Not such a load as yours if me you mean!

• Petruchio : Come, come, you wasp! In faith you are too angry!

  Katherina : If I be waspish, best beware my sting!

  Petruchio : My remedy then is to pluck it out!

  Katherina : Hah! Aye, if the fool could find where it lies!

  Petruchio : Who knows not where a wasp doth wear his sting? In his tail!

  Katherina : In his tongue!

  Petruchio : Whose tongue?

  Katherina : Yours! If you talk of tales, and so farewell!

  Petruchio : What, with my tongue in your tail?

• Petruchio : Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

  Katherina : Moved? In good time. Let him that moved you hither RE-move you hence!

• The Priest : [all smiles]  Katarina...

  [she gives him a look; he draws back] 

  The Priest : Katarina, wilt thou take Petruchio to be thy lawful wedded husband?

  Katherina : [she throws back her veil, gives a huge smile that turns into a huge angry look]  I... Will...

  [Petruchio kisses her passionately before she can say, "Not!" and the crowd cheers] 

• Katherina : When she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, and not obedient to his honest will, what is she but a foul contending rebel and graceless traitor to her loving lord? I am ashamed that women are so simple to offer war when they should kneel for peace. Or, seek for rule, supremacy and sway, when they are bound to serve, love - and obey.

• Petruchio : [on the morning after the disastrous wedding night]  How fares my Kate?

  Katherina : [gives him a very long look, then]  Ill.

• Petruchio : Mistress, what cheer?

  Katherina : [deliberately]  Faith, as cold as can be.

• Katherina : [Petruchio has addressed Vincentio as a young woman and indicated Katherina should do likewise]  Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, wither away or where is thy abode? Oh, happy the parents of so fair a child... happier the man whom favorable stars will allot for his lovely bedfellow.

  [she turns to go] 

  Petruchio : Why, how now, Kate,I hope thou art not mad. This a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered and not a maiden as thou sayest he is.

  Katherina : [turns back, still in the spirit of the game]  Oh, pardon, old father, for my mistaking eyes that have been so bedazzled by the...

  [she looks at Petruchio for confirmation] 

  Katherina : sun?

  [he nods yes] 

  Katherina : that everything I see is green and young.

• Katherina : Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, unapt to toil and trouble in the world, but that our soft conditions and our hearts should well agree with our external parts?

• Katherina : Asses are made to bear, and so are you!

  Petruchio : Women are made to bear, and so are you!

• Katherina : Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee! And for thy maintenance commits his body to painful labor both by sea and land, to watch the night in storms, the day in cold, while thou liest warm at home, secure and safe. He craves no other tribute at thy hands, but love, fair looks and true obedience. Too little payment for so great a debt.

• Katherina : Place your hands below your husband's foot, in token of which duty, if he please. My hand is ready, may it do him ease.

• Katherina : In faith, sir, you shall have not need to fear. Such - mating - is not half way to my heart! But, if it were, doubt not my care should be to paint your face and use you like a fool!

• Petruchio : Am I not wise?

  Katherina : Enough to keep you - warm!

  Petruchio : Marry, so I mean, to warm me, in thy bed. Oh, and will you, nill you, I will marry you.

• Katherina : Nay, then, do what thou canst, I will not go today. No, nor tomorrow, till I please myself. The door is open, sir; there lies your way. You may be jogging whiles your boots are green; For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself!

• Katherina : I see a woman may be made a fool, if she had not the spirit to resist!

• Petruchio : Hortensio fears his widow.

  The Widow : I am not afeard.

  Petruchio : I mean, Hortensio is afeard of you.

  The Widow : Your husband, being troubled with a shrew, measures my husband's trouble by his own. And now you know my meaning.

  Katherina : A very mean meaning.

  The Widow : Right! I mean you!

  Petruchio : To her, Kate!

  Hortensio : To her, widow.

  Petruchio : A hundred crowns, my Kate will lay her flat!

• Katherina : Such duty as the subject owes the prince, even such a woman oweth to her husband.

• Katherina : I pray you, father! Is it your will to make a whore of me among these - mates!