Mean Shakespeare Quotes

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  • October 23

    October 23

    Harsh World

    …this is no world
    To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
    We must have bloody noses and crack’d crowns,
    And pass them current too.

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iii

  • October 22

    October 22

    Spoiled

    Take her back again:
    Give not this rotten orange to your friend…

    —Much Ado About Nothing, 
    Act IV, Scene i

  • October 21

    October 21

    Warning

    If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

    –Taming of the Shrew,
    Act II, Scene i

  • October 20

    October 20

    Unsatisfactory Strumpet

    She burn’d with love, as straw with fire flameth;
    She burn’d out love, as soon as straw outburneth…

    Was this a lover, or a lecher whether?
    Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.

    –-The Passionate Pilgrim

  • October 19

    October 19

    Greed

    The great ones eat up the
    little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
    nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and
    tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
    last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales
    have I heard on o’ the land, who never leave gaping
    till they’ve swallowed the whole parish, church,
    steeple, bells, and all.

    ––Pericles,
    Act II, Scene 1

  • October 18

    October 18

    Misery

    To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death.

    —Macbeth,
    Act V, Scene v

  • October 17

    October 17

    You’re a Pair of Monkeys

    Or else you had looked through
    the grate, like a geminy of baboons.

    –Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act II, Scene ii