Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Bitter

  • 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

  • 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

    September 26

    News Cycle

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

    —Troilus and Cressida,
    Act V, Scene ii