Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Histories

  • December 25

    Not in the Spirit

    I am not in the giving vein to-day. 

    -Richard III,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • December 21

    Cold Curses

    Well could I curse away a winter’s night.
    Though standing naked on a mountain top,
    Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
    And think it but a minute spent in sport.

    -Henry VI Part 2,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • December 15

    You Are False to the Core

    As low as to thy heart,
    Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.

    –Richard II,
    Act I, Scene i

  • December 14

    Suspect Fawning

    For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
    The thing which is flatter’d, but a spark,
    To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;

    … He flatters you, makes war upon your life.

    –Pericles,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • December 9

    Get Out, Toad

    Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
    Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes.

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • December 5

    Hypocrite

    Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh,
    And ne’er throughout the year to church thou go’st
    Except it be to pray against thy foes.

    –Henry VI Part 1,
    Act I, Scene i

  • December 3

    Look Behind You

    Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
    The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

    —Henry VI Part 3,
    Act V, Scene vi