Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

  • October 1

    Precarious

    O, how wretched
    Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favours!

    –Henry VIII, 
    Act III, Scene ii

  • September 30

    September 30

    Fool’s Fancy

    He that cherishes my flesh and blood
    loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my
    flesh and blood is my friend:
    ergo, he that kisses my wife is my friend.

    —All’s Well That Ends Well,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • September 29

    Shame Spiral

    Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

    —Macbeth,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • September 28

    Unrequited

    ‘Tis the strumpet’s plague
    To beguile many and be beguiled by one:
    He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
    From the excess of laughter.

    —Othello,
    Act IV, Scene i

  • September 27

    Dirtbag

    Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon.

    —Timon of Athens,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • September 26

    September 26

    News Cycle

    Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery:
    nothing else holds fashion.

    —Troilus and Cressida,
    Act V, Scene ii

  • September 25

    September 25

    Resentment

    Anger’s my meat: I sup upon myself,
    And so shall starve with feeding.

    —Coriolanus,
    Act IV, Scene ii