Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Creative Insults

November 9

Get to the Point

Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose.

–Measure for Measure,
Act II, Scene i
November 2

Mistress of Hellsgate

You, mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!

–Othello,
Act IV, Scene ii
November 1

Scabs

What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs?

–Coriolanus,
Act I, Scene i
October 29

Pickle

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

–Coriolanus
Act V, Scene iv
October 26

Whipped

Take but good note, and you shall see in him
The triple pillar of the world transform’d
Into a strumpet’s fool: behold and see.

–Antony and Cleopatra,
Act I, Scene i
October 22

Spoiled

Take her back again:
Give not this rotten orange to your friend…

—Much Ado About Nothing,
Act IV, Scene i
October 17

You’re a Pair of Monkeys

Or else you had looked through
the grate, like a geminy of baboons.

–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act II, Scene ii