Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: All Mean Quotes

November 13

Feast of Jove

Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!

–Twelfth Night,
Act III, Scene ii
November 12

Dense

His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.

–Henry IV Part 2,
Act II, Scene iv
November 11

String of Insults

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson.

—King Lear,
Act II, Scene ii
November 10

The Original

Villain, I have done thy mother.

–Titus Andronicus,
Act IV, Scene ii
November 9

Get to the Point

Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose.

–Measure for Measure,
Act II, Scene i
November 8

Player’s Poem

‘This man’s untrue,’
And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,
Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
Thought characters and words merely but art,
And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.

–A Lover’s Complaint
November 7

Exposed

His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
Not able to endure the sight of day,
But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.

–Richard II,
Act III, Scene ii