Category: Quote of the Day

  • September 9

    September 9

    Illicit


    Of what quality was your love, then? 
    …Like a fair house built on another man’s ground.

    -Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • September 8

    September 8

    Spin


    And thus I clothe my naked villany
    With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
    And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

    -Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • 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

  • September 5

    September 5

    Extra


    Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!

    -King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • September 4

    September 4

    Marry, his kisses are Judas’s own children.

  • September 3

    September 3

    Weak and Willful


    Come, come, you froward and unable worms!

    –Taming of the Shrew,
    Act V, Scene ii