Category: Quote of the Day

  • December 14

    Suspect Fawning


    For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
    The thing which is flatter’d, but a spark,
    To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;

    … He flatters you, makes war upon your life.

    –Pericles,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • December 13

    You Are Slimy… and Slow


    Come no more in my sight. I had as lief be woo’d of a snail.

    –As You Like It,
    Act IV, Scene i

  • December 12

    Hot Lover


    I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover…
    Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself in love.

    –Two Gentlemen of Verona,
    Act II, Scene v

  • December 11

    Pious Pervert


    Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
    Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
    Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
    For which thou whip’st her.

    –King Lear,
    Act IV, Scene vi

  • December 10

    Ridiculous


    O omnipotent Love!
    How near the god drew to the complexion of a goose!

    –The Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act V, Scene v

  • December 9

    Get Out, Toad


    Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
    Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes.

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • December 8

    Two-Faced


    His forward voice now is to speak well of his
    friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches
    and to detract.

    –The Tempest,
    Act II, Scene ii