Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Dark

July 18

Survive Confusion

My thoughts are whirled like a potter’s wheel:
I know not where I am, nor what I do.

–Henry VI Part 1,
Act I, Scene V
July 16

Bad Blood

I think the devil will not have me damned,
lest the oil that’s in me should set hell on fire.

–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act V, Scene V
July 13

Unstable Showcase

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition,
oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

–Othello,
Act II, Scene iv
June 26

Remember Who Helped You

For new-made honour doth forget men’s names.

–King John,
Act I, Scene i
June 13

Threat

The villany you teach me, I will execute,
and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

–The Merchant of Venice,
Act III, Scene iii
June 12

Stay in Rhythm

How sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men’s lives.

–Richard II,
Act V, Scene v
June 5

Reckless

Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!

—Othello,
Act V, Scene ii