Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Richard 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

    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

    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

  • October 16

    Shame

    Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;
    For ’tis thy presence that exhales this blood
    From cold and empty veins.

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • September 8

    September 8

    Spin

    And thus I clothe my naked villany
    With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;
    And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

    -Richard III,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • August 27

    August 27

    Burn

    …And thou unfit for any place but hell.

    -Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii