Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: All Insults

November 14

False Faces

Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.

–Henry VIII,
Act III, Scene i
November 13

Feast of Jove

Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!

–Twelfth Night,
Act III, Scene ii
November 12

Dense

His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.

–Henry IV Part 2,
Act II, Scene iv
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
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