Sarcasm & Irony – Page 2 – Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Slimy and Slow

Come no more in my sight. I had as lief be woo’d of a snail.

–As You Like It,
Act IV, Scene i

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.

–Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii

There is a history in all men’s lives…
The which observ’d, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things.

–Henry IV Part 2,
Act III, Scene i

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

–Merchant of Venice,
Act V, Scene i

Methink’st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

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

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

–Troilus and Cressida,
Act II, Scene i

There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

–Henry IV Part 1,
Act III, Scene iii