Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Tragedies

  • 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

  • December 11

    Pious Pervert

    Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!
    Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back.
    Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind
    For which thou whip’st her.

    –King Lear,
    Act IV, Scene vi

  • December 1

    December 1

    Deception

    And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
    The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
    Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
    In deepest consequence.

    –Macbeth,
    Act I, Scene iii

  • November 25

    November 25

    Reverse Legacy

    The evil that men do lives after them;
    The good is oft interred with their bones.

    —Julius Caesar,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • November 24

    November 24

    Dark Desire

    Stars, hide your fires;
    Let not light see my black and deep desires.

    —Macbeth,
    Act I, Scene iv

  • November 19

    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

    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