Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Bitter

  • December 18

    December 18

    Corrupted Currents

    May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense?
    In the corrupted currents of this world,
    Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
    And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
    Buys out the law.

    –Hamlet,
    Act III, Scene iii

  • December 14

    Suspect Fawning

    For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
    The thing which is flatter’d, but a spark,
    To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;

    … He flatters you, makes war upon your life.

    –Pericles,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • December 10

    Ridiculous

    O omnipotent Love!
    How near the god drew to the complexion of a goose!

    –The Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act V, Scene v

  • December 4

    The Company You Keep

    Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.

    –Comedy of Errors,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • November 25

    Reverse Legacy

    The evil that men do lives after them;
    The good is oft interred with their bones.

    —Julius Caesar,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • November 23

    Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold

    If heaven have any grievous plague in store
    Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
    O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
    And then hurl down their indignation.

    —Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • November 15

    Temptations

    The strongest oaths are straw
    To the fire i’ the blood.

    –The Tempest,
    Act IV, Scene i