Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Famous

  • March 15

    March 15

    Bad Advice

    To beguile the time,
    Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
    Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
    But be the serpent under’t.

    –Macbeth,
    Act I, Scene v

  • February 22

    February 22

    Confused

    He takes false shadows for true substances.

    —Titus Andronicus,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • 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

    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

    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)