Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Bitter

October 15

Tarnish

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt.

–Cymbeline,
Act III Scene vi
October 6

Taunt

And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.

-Henry VI Part 3,
Act I, Scene iv
October 4

Wrath

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

–Titus Andronicus,
Act II, Scene ii
September 29

Shame Spiral

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

—Macbeth,
Act III, Scene ii
September 28

Unrequited

‘Tis the strumpet’s plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one:
He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
From the excess of laughter.

—Othello,
Act IV, Scene i
September 26

News Cycle

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery:
nothing else holds fashion.

—Troilus and Cressida,
Act V, Scene ii
September 25

Resentment

Anger’s my meat: I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.

—Coriolanus,
Act IV, Scene ii