Category: Creative Insults

  • November 28

    November 28

    You Talk Too Much


    Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English.

    Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act I, Scene iv

  • November 16

    November 16

    Soggy


    There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act III, Scene iii

  • November 14

    November 14

    False Faces


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

    –Henry VIII,
    Act III, Scene i

  • November 13

    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

    November 12

    Dense


    His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • November 9

    November 9

    Get to the Point


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

    –Measure for Measure,
    Act II, Scene i

  • November 2

    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