Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

  • December 1

    December 1

    Deception

    And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
    The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
    Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
    In deepest consequence.

    –Macbeth,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • November 30

    November 30

    Seasonal Affective Disorder

    The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;
    And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,
    Lamenting some enforced chastity.

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

  • November 29

    November 29

    Just a Total Mess

    He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
    Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
    Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
    Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

    —Comedy of Errors,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • November 28

    November 28

    You Talk Too Much

    Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English.

    —Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act I, Scene iv

  • November 27

    November 27

    More Hair Than Wit

    She hath more hair than wit, and more faults
    than hairs, and more wealth than faults…
    Stop there. I’ll have her.

    —Two Gentlemen of Verona,
    Act III, Scene i

  • November 26

    November 26

    Downfall Vultures

    Let [him] frantic triumph for a while
    And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
    We’ll pull his plumes and take away his train.

    —Henry VI Part 1,
    Act III,  Scene iii

  • November 25

    November 25

    Reverse Legacy

    The evil that men do lives after them;
    The good is oft interred with their bones.

    —Julius Caesar,
    Act III, Scene ii