where does the saying....

[beryllium]

Killing with kindness come from?

[Quizmonster]

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew contains the words, "This is the way to kill a wife with kindness."

[beryllium]

Thank you Quizmonster,
How does the wife die?

[dilf]

with a pair of twisted gonads in her hands

[Trillipse]

http://www.luminarium.org/editions/womankilled .htm

i went to see the play some time ago - the fulltext i believe is available at the above link, but i think the gist of it was that a wife did some bad stuff to her husband, and instead of taking what would have been the accepted punishment or whatever (divorce, excommunication, whatever) he instead treated her extremely well, set her up in a nice house with a private income etc etc and the guilt eventually did for her, or something like that.

[beryllium]

excellent!!! :-) thank you. Always wanted to see the Shakespeare Plays where they squished all of them into 1 hr or 2, it's on my to do list.....