Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

August 21

Lead Better

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
August 19

Stupid Human Tricks

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

— A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act III, Scene ii
August 18

Over the Top

O you beast! O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!…
O, fie, fie, fie! Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd.

-Measure For Measure,
Act III, Scene i
August 17

Ignorati

They have been at a great feast of languages,
and stolen the scraps.

–Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act V, Scene i
August 16

Dirk Diggler

Were kisses all the joys in bed,
One woman would another wed.

-The Passionate Pilgrim
August 15

Not Even Worth It

I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.

-Timon of Athens,
Act IV, Scene iii