Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Tragedies

November 19

Shatter You

He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a sailor breaks a biscuit.

–Troilus and Cressida,
Act II, Scene i
November 11

String of Insults

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud,
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson.

—King Lear,
Act II, Scene ii
November 10

The Original

Villain, I have done thy mother.

–Titus Andronicus,
Act IV, Scene ii
November 5

Double Down

…When we in our viciousness grow hard—
O misery on’t!—the wise gods seel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Adore our errors; laugh at’s, while we strut
To our confusion.

–Antony and Cleopatra,
Act III, Scene xiii
November 3

The World Is Full of Knaves

There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.

–Hamlet,
Act I, Scene v
November 2

Mistress of Hellsgate

You, mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!

–Othello,
Act IV, Scene ii
November 1

Scabs

What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs?

–Coriolanus,
Act I, Scene i