Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

  • October 29

    October 29

    Pickle

    The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

    –Coriolanus
    Act V, Scene iv

  • October 28

    Disturbing the Peace

    …are you mad? or what are you? Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?

    –Twelfth Night,
    Act II, Scene iii

  • October 27

    October 27

    Just Because You Could

    How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
    Make deeds ill done!…
    And thou, to be endeared to a king,
    Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.

    –King John,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • October 26

    October 26

    Whipped

    Take but good note, and you shall see in him
    The triple pillar of the world transform’d
    Into a strumpet’s fool: behold and see.

    –Antony and Cleopatra, 
    Act I, Scene i

  • October 25

    Get Off the Internet

    I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.

    –Henry VI Part 1, 
    Act II, Scene iv

  • October 24

    Get Off Me

    Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,
    Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!

    —A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • October 23

    Harsh World

    …this is no world
    To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
    We must have bloody noses and crack’d crowns,
    And pass them current too.

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iii