Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

  • January 11

    January 11

    Bad Blood

    I think the devil will not have me damned,
    lest the oil that’s in me should set hell on fire.  

    –Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act V, Scene v

  • January 10

    January 10

    Make You Invisible

    I do care for something; but in my
    conscience, sir, I do not care for you:
    if that be to care for nothing, sir,
    I would it would make you invisible.

    -Twelfth Night,
    Act III, Scene i

  • January 9

    Rambling Talker

    His reasons are as two grains of wheat
    hid in two bushels of chaff:
    you shall seek all day ere you find them,
    and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

    –Merchant of Venice,
    Act I, Scene i

  • January 8

    January 8

    Nothing Inside

    A hungry lean-faced villain,
    A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
    A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,
    A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
    A dead-looking man.

    -Comedy of Errors,
    Act V, Scene i

  • January 7

    January 7

    Muck Rakers

    Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?

    -Henry VI Part 1,
    Act  I, Scene iii

  • January 6

    January 6

    Body Police

    The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
    If she unmask her beauty to the moon.

    -Hamlet,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • January 5

    January 5

    Self-Destructive Fool

    Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider,
    Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
    Fool, fool! Thou whet’st a knife to kill thyself.

    -Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii