diff --git a/docs/user/authentication.rst b/docs/user/authentication.rst
index af43bd29..dd0bf2b8 100644
--- a/docs/user/authentication.rst
+++ b/docs/user/authentication.rst
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ If you can't find a good implementation of the form of authentication you
 want, you can implement it yourself. Requests makes it easy to add your own
 forms of authentication.
 
-To do so, subclass :class:`requests.auth.AuthBase` and implement the
+To do so, subclass :class:`AuthBase <requests.auth.AuthBase>` and implement the
 ``__call__()`` method::
 
     >>> import requests
diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index 6bd82f7d..73439edc 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ timeline ::
 
     >>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')
 
-Now, we have a :class:`Response` object called ``r``. We can get all the
-information we need from this object.
+Now, we have a :class:`Request <requests.Request>` object called ``r``. We can
+get all the information we need from this object.
 
 Requests' simple API means that all forms of HTTP request are as obvious. For
 example, this is how you make an HTTP POST request::
@@ -286,8 +286,9 @@ reference::
     >>> r.status_code == requests.codes.ok
     True
 
-If we made a bad request (a 4XX client error or 5XX server error response), we can raise it with
-:class:`Response.raise_for_status()`::
+If we made a bad request (a 4XX client error or 5XX server error response), we
+can raise it with
+:meth:`Response.raise_for_status() <requests.Response.raise_for_status>`::
 
     >>> bad_r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/status/404')
     >>> bad_r.status_code