Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Bitter

  • November 3

    November 3

    The World Is Full of Knaves

    There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
    To tell us this.

    –Hamlet,
    Act I, Scene v

  • October 30

    October 30

    Devil’s Night

    Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

    —-The Tempest,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • October 27

    October 27

    Just Because You Could

    How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
    Make deeds ill done!…
    And thou, to be endeared to a king,
    Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.

    –King John,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • 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 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 16

    October 16

    Shame

    Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;
    For ’tis thy presence that exhales this blood
    From cold and empty veins.

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii