Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

  • November 17

    November 17

    Smoke to Fire

    One sin, I know, another doth provoke;
    Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke.

    –Pericles,
    Act I Scene i

  • November 16

    November 16

    Soggy

    There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act III, Scene iii

  • November 15

    November 15

    Temptations

    The strongest oaths are straw
    To the fire i’ the blood.

    –The Tempest,
    Act IV, Scene i

  • November 14

    November 14

    False Faces

    Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.

    –Henry VIII,
    Act III, Scene i

  • November 13

    November 13

    Feast of Jove

    Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!

    –Twelfth Night,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • November 12

    November 12

    Dense

    His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • November 11

    November 11

    String of Insults

    A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
    shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
    worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson.

    —King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii