Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Histories

  • January 23

    January 23

    Cover Girl

    How courtesy would seem to cover sin,
    When what is done is like an hypocrite,
    The which is good in nothing but in sight!

    –Pericles,
    Act I, Scene i

  • January 21

    January 21

    Turnabout

    Thou art as fat as butter….

    Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • January 7

    January 7

    Muck Rakers

    Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?

    -Henry VI Part 1,
    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

  • 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

  • December 28

    December 28

    Bye

    Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!

    -Henry VI Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iv