Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Richard III

  • 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 5

    March 5

    Snap Back

    O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • February 24

    February 24

    Goodnight

    No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
    Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream
    Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!
    Thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog!

    –Richard III,
    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

  • December 25

    Not in the Spirit

    I am not in the giving vein to-day. 

    -Richard III,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • December 9

    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

  • November 23

    November 23

    Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold

    If heaven have any grievous plague in store
    Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
    O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
    And then hurl down their indignation.

    —Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii