Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Tragedies

  • January 2

    January 2

    Warpaint

    Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
    Thou lily-liver’d boy.

    -Macbeth,
    Act V, Scene iii

  • December 31

    December 31

    Drama Queen

    A fickle maid full pale,
    Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
    Storming her world with sorrow’s wind and rain.

    –A Lover’s Complaint

  • December 27

    December 27

    Odious

    You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
    As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
    As the dead carcasses of unburied men
    That do corrupt my air.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act III, Scene iii

  • December 26

    Unrepentant

    I have done a thousand dreadful things
    As willingly as one would kill a fly,
    And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
    But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

    -Titus Andronicus,
    Act V Scene i

  • December 24

    Wish You Were Better

    For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
    That I might love thee something.

    -Timon of Athens,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • December 19

    December 19

    Shut Up and Go Away

    Peace, you mumbling fool!
    Utter your gravity o’er a gossip’s bowl;
    For here we need it not.

    -Romeo and Juliet,
    Act III, Scene v

  • December 18

    December 18

    Corrupted Currents

    May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense?
    In the corrupted currents of this world,
    Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
    And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
    Buys out the law.

    –Hamlet,
    Act III, Scene iii