Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Histories

  • 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

  • December 25

    Not in the Spirit

    I am not in the giving vein to-day. 

    -Richard III,
    Act IV, Scene ii