Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Dark & Bitter

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
September 18

Give Them an Inch

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

—Timon of Athens,
Act III, Scene vi
September 17

Crocodile Tears

Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum;
And he, long traded in it, makes it seem
Like rivers of remorse and innocency.

–King John,
Act IV, Scene iii
September 13

Dumb As

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

-Julius Caesar,
Act I, Scene i
September 4

Bitter Betrayals

Marry, his kisses are Judas’s own children.

-As You Like It,
Act III, Scene iv
September 1

Pretense Protection

Few love to hear the sins they love to act…
Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He’s more secure to keep it shut than shown.

-Pericles,
Act I, Scene i