Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Bitter

  • Out of Sync

    Out of Sync

    For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees
    Th’inaudible and noiseless foot of time
    Steals ere we can effect them.

    –All’s Well That Ends Well,
    Act V, Scene iii

  • Vainglory

    Vainglory

    Glory is like a circle in the water,
    Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
    Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

    –Henry VI Part 1,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • Fizzle

    Fizzle

    His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
    For violent fires soon burn out themselves.

    –Richard II,
    Act II, Scene i

  • False Spring

    False Spring

    Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels
    Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends
    And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
    The least rub in your fortunes, fall away
    Like water from ye, never found again
    But where they mean to sink ye.

    –Henry VIII,
    Act II, Scene i

  • Led Astray

    Led Astray

    Thus may poor fools
    Believe false teachers.
    Though those that are betray’d
    Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
    Stands in worse case of woe.

    –Cymbeline,
    Act III, Scene iv

  • Easy Pickings

    Easy Pickings

    The ripest fruit first falls.

    –Richard II,
    Act I, Scene i

  • Worst Wishes

    Worst Wishes

    But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
    Environ you, till mischief and despair
    Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!

    –Henry VI Part 1,
    Act V, Scene iv