| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 51395 |
| QUOTATION: | O, when she is angry she is keen and shrewd;
She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little, she is fierce. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Helena, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 3, sc. 2, l. 323-5.
On Hermia; “keen and shrewd” meanscaustic and malicious. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shakespeare Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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