Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Henry VIII

  • 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

  • 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

  • November 14

    False Faces

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

    –Henry VIII,
    Act III, Scene i

  • October 1

    Precarious

    O, how wretched
    Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favours!

    –Henry VIII, 
    Act III, Scene ii