Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

  • November 12

    Dense

    His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • November 11

    String of Insults

    A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
    shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
    worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson.

    —King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • November 10

    The Original

    Villain, I have done thy mother.

    –Titus Andronicus,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • November 9

    Get to the Point

    Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose.

    –Measure for Measure,
    Act II, Scene i

  • November 8

    Player’s Poem

    ‘This man’s untrue,’
    And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
    Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,
    Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
    Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
    Thought characters and words merely but art,
    And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.

    –A Lover’s Complaint

  • November 7

    Exposed

    His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
    Not able to endure the sight of day,
    But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.

    –Richard II,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • November 6

    Dubious Denial

    What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

    –Taming of the Shrew,
    Act II, Scene i