Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Famous

  • January 28

    January 28

    You’re Out

    Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
    For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,
    Nor what is mine shall never do thee good.

    –Romeo and Juliet,
    Act III, Scene v

  • December 25

    Not in the Spirit

    I am not in the giving vein to-day. 

    -Richard III,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • December 1

    Deception

    And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
    The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
    Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
    In deepest consequence.

    –Macbeth,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • November 18

    The Worm Turns

    The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.

    –Henry VI, Part 3,
    Act II Scene ii

  • September 7

    September 7

    She Ain’t Pretty

    My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
    Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
    If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
    If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

    –Sonnet CXXX (130)

  • September 6

    September 6

    There’s More To It

    The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers…
    Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing,
    that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment?
    That parchment, being scribbled o’er, should undo a man?

    –Henry VI Part 2,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • August 21

    August 21

    Lead Better

    Let me have men about me that are fat,
    Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
    [He] has a lean and hungry look. 
    He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

    –Julius Caesar,
    Act I, Scene ii