Nothing Inside
A hungry lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
A dead-looking man.
-Comedy of Errors,
Act V, Scene i
Category: Colorful Insults
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January 8
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November 29
Just a Total Mess
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.—Comedy of Errors,
Act IV, Scene ii -
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 -
October 25
Get Off the Internet
I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.
–Henry VI Part 1,
Act II, Scene iv -
October 13
Go…
Thyself upon thyself!
–Troilus and Cressida,
Act II, Scene iii -
October 12
Super Bad
A most notable coward, an infinite and
endless liar, an hourly promise breaker,
the owner of no one good quality.–All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act III, Scene vi -
October 9
Birds of a Feather
I scorn you, scurvy companion.
-Henry IV Part 2,
Act II, Scene iv
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