Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

August 26

Lash Out

If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool;
for wise men know well enough what monsters
you make of them.

-Hamlet,
Act III, Scene i
August 25

Smoke-Screened Threat

You are as a candle, the better burnt out.

-Henry IV Part 2,
Act I, Scene ii
August 24

Star-Glazing

An admirable evasion of man,
to lay his disposition to the charge of a star.

–King Lear,
Act I, Scene ii
August 23

Ugly Baby

Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad.

–Titus Andronicus,
Act IV, Scene iii
August 22

Geography of Lust

No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:
she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her.

-The Comedy of Errors,
Act III, Scene ii
August 21

Leadership Lesson

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
[He] has a lean and hungry look.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

–Julius Caesar,
Act I, Scene ii
August 20

Accidental Virtues

Though I am not naturally honest,
I am so sometimes by chance.

-The Winter’s Tale,
Act IV, Scene iii