Mean Shakespeare Quotes

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  • October 20

    October 20

    Unsatisfactory Strumpet

    She burn’d with love, as straw with fire flameth;
    She burn’d out love, as soon as straw outburneth…

    Was this a lover, or a lecher whether?
    Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.

    –-The Passionate Pilgrim

  • October 19

    October 19

    Greed

    The great ones eat up the
    little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
    nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and
    tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
    last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales
    have I heard on o’ the land, who never leave gaping
    till they’ve swallowed the whole parish, church,
    steeple, bells, and all.

    ––Pericles,
    Act II, Scene 1

  • October 18

    October 18

    Misery

    To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
    To the last syllable of recorded time,
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death.

    —Macbeth,
    Act V, Scene v

  • October 17

    October 17

    You’re a Pair of Monkeys

    Or else you had looked through
    the grate, like a geminy of baboons.

    –Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • October 16

    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

    October 15

    Tarnish

    All gold and silver rather turn to dirt.

    –Cymbeline,
    Act III Scene vi

  • October 14

    October 14

    Fair Warning

    I pray you do not fall in love with me,
    For I am falser than vows made in wine;

    Besides, I like you not.

    –As You Like It,
    Act III, Scene v