Dubious Denial
What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
–Taming of the Shrew,
Act II, Scene i

What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
–Taming of the Shrew,
Act II, Scene i

…When we in our viciousness grow hard—
O misery on’t!—the wise gods seel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Adore our errors; laugh at’s, while we strut
To our confusion.
–Antony and Cleopatra,
Act III, Scene xiii

I wonder that you will still be talking…nobody marks you.
–Much Ado About Nothing,
Act I, Scene i

There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.
–Hamlet,
Act I, Scene v

You, mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!
–Othello,
Act IV, Scene ii

What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs?
–Coriolanus,
Act I, Scene i

You, minion, are too saucy.
–Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act I, Scene ii