Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Sarcasm & Irony

  • November 3

    The World Is Full of Knaves

    There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
    To tell us this.

    –Hamlet,
    Act I, Scene v

  • November 1

    Scabs

    What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
    That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
    Make yourselves scabs?

    –Coriolanus,
    Act I, Scene i

  • October 24

    Get Off Me

    Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,
    Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!

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

  • October 22

    October 22

    Spoiled

    Take her back again:
    Give not this rotten orange to your friend…

    —Much Ado About Nothing, 
    Act IV, Scene i

  • October 14

    October 14

    Fair Warning

    I pray you do not fall in love with me,
    For I am falser than vows made in wine;

    Besides, I like you not.

    –As You Like It,
    Act III, Scene v

  • October 7

    Inflammatory

    Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
    in my corrupted blood… But I’ll not chide thee.

    -King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • October 5

    October 5

    Arch Observation

    Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
    Become some women best, so that there be not
    Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
    Or a half-moon made with a pen.

    –Winter’s Tale, 
    Act II, Scene i