Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Colorful Insults

  • February 27

    February 27

    Dumbhead

    Thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.

    –Love’s Labour’s Lost,
    Act V, Scene i

  • January 22

    January 22

    Insolent Noisemaker

    You bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!…
    Hang, cur! Hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!

    –The Tempest,
    Act I, Scene i

  • January 8

    January 8

    Nothing Inside

    A hungry lean-faced villain,
    A mere anatomy, a mountebank,
    A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,
    A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
    A dead-looking man.

    -Comedy of Errors,
    Act V, Scene i

  • November 29

    Just a Total Mess

    He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
    Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
    Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
    Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

    —Comedy of Errors,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • 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

  • October 25

    Get Off the Internet

    I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.

    –Henry VI Part 1, 
    Act II, Scene iv

  • October 13

    Go…

    Thyself upon thyself!

    –Troilus and Cressida,
    Act II, Scene iii