Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Calculated Insults

January 10

Make You Invisible

I do care for something; but in my
conscience, sir, I do not care for you:
if that be to care for nothing, sir,
I would it would make you invisible.

-Twelfth Night,
Act III, Scene i
January 9

Rambling Talker

His reasons are as two grains of wheat
hid in two bushels of chaff:
you shall seek all day ere you find them,
and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

–Merchant of Venice,
Act I, Scene i
December 28

Bye

Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!

-Henry VI Part 1,
Act II, Scene iv
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
August 10

Deceiver

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

–Othello,
Act IV, Scene ii
August 5

Lake Superior

You are idle shallow things: I am not of your element.

-Twelfth Night,
Act III, Scene iv
August 1

Venom in Velvet

For I must tell you friendly in your ear:
Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.

-As You Like It,
Act III, Scene v