Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Histories

  • March 20

    March 20

    Throwing Stones

    Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!”

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • March 18

    March 18

    Demure Boys

    There’s never none of these demure boys
    to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,
    making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male
    green-sickness…They are generally fools and cowards.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • March 17

    March 17

    Not a Compliment

    How green you are and fresh in this old world!

    –King John,
    Act III, Scene iv

  • March 16

    March 16

    False Spring

    Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
    Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
    And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
    The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
    Like water from ye, never found again
    But where they mean to sink ye.

    –Henry VIII,
    Act II, Scene i

  • March 13

    March 13

    Red-Faced

    Put thy face between his sheets, and
    do the office of a warming-pan.

    –Henry V,
    Act II, Scene i

  • March 12

    March 12

    Danger Dog

    Take heed of yonder dog!
    Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,
    His venom tooth will rankle to the death:
    Have not to do with him, beware of him.

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • March 11

    March 11

    Fraidy Cat

    Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!
    Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy?

    –Henry VI Part 2,
    Act III, Scene ii