Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Histories

  • November 14

    False Faces

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

    –Henry VIII,
    Act III, Scene i

  • November 12

    Dense

    His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • November 7

    Exposed

    His treasons will sit blushing in his face,
    Not able to endure the sight of day,
    But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.

    –Richard II,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • October 27

    October 27

    Just Because You Could

    How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
    Make deeds ill done!…
    And thou, to be endeared to a king,
    Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.

    –King John,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • October 25

    Get Off the Internet

    I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.

    –Henry VI Part 1, 
    Act II, Scene iv

  • October 23

    Harsh World

    …this is no world
    To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
    We must have bloody noses and crack’d crowns,
    And pass them current too.

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iii

  • October 19

    Greed

    The great ones eat up the
    little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
    nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and
    tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
    last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales
    have I heard on o’ the land, who never leave gaping
    till they’ve swallowed the whole parish, church,
    steeple, bells, and all.

    ––Pericles,
    Act II, Scene 1