Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: All Insults

October 9

Birds of a Feather

I scorn you, scurvy companion.

-Henry IV Part 2,
Act II, Scene iv
October 7

Inflammatory

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
in my corrupted blood… But I’ll not chide thee.

-King Lear,
Act II, Scene ii
October 5

Arch Observation

Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
Become some women best, so that there be not
Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
Or a half-moon made with a pen.

–Winter’s Tale,
Act II, Scene i
October 2

Inferior

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

–Merchant of Venice,
Act I, Scene ii
September 27

Dirtbag

Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon.

—Timon of Athens,
Act IV, Scene iii
September 24

Timely Retort

Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,
for he is very slow-gaited.

—Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act III, Scene i
September 23

It’s All in the Delivery

A message well sympathized;
a horse to be ambassador for an ass…

—Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act III, Scene i