Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Quote of the Day

  • January 4

    January 4

    Fading Ripples

    Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues
    We write in water.

    -Henry VIII,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • January 3

    January 3

    Bonehead

    Thou sodden-witted lord!
    Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

    -Troilus and Cressida,
    Act II, Scene i

  • January 2

    January 2

    Warpaint

    Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
    Thou lily-liver’d boy.

    -Macbeth,
    Act V, Scene iii

  • January 1

    January 1

    Blasts of January

    Out, alas!
    You’d be so lean, that blasts of January
    Would blow you through and through.

    -Winter’s Tale,
    Act IV, Scene iv

  • December 31

    December 31

    Drama Queen

    A fickle maid full pale,
    Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
    Storming her world with sorrow’s wind and rain.

    –A Lover’s Complaint

  • December 30

    December 30

    Cynical Rationalization

    He was a fool;
    For he would needs be virtuous…Learn this, brother,
    We live not to be grip’d by meaner persons.

    –Henry VIII,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • December 29

    December 29

    Then and Now

    There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure;
    but security enough to make fellowships accurst:
    much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world.
    This news is old enough, yet it is every day’s news.

    -Measure for Measure,
    Act III, Scene ii