Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Creative Insults

  • January 25

    January 25

    Night Crawler

    One that converses more
    with the buttock of the night
    than with the forehead of the morning.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act II, Scene i

  • January 18

    January 18

    Cold

    …a man whose blood is very snow-broth.

    –Measure for Measure,
    Act I, Scene iv

  • January 17

    January 17

    Call and Response

    Thou art a villain…

    You are—a senator.

    –Othello,
    Act I, Scene i

  • January 3

    January 3

    Bonehead

    Thou sodden-witted lord!
    Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

    -Troilus and Cressida,
    Act II, Scene i

  • January 1

    January 1

    Blasts of January

    Out, alas!
    You’d be so lean, that blasts of January
    Would blow you through and through.

    -Winter’s Tale,
    Act IV, Scene iv

  • December 22

    December 22

    Capricious

    And the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for
    thy mind is a very opal.

    -Twelfth Night,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • December 19

    December 19

    Shut Up and Go Away

    Peace, you mumbling fool!
    Utter your gravity o’er a gossip’s bowl;
    For here we need it not.

    -Romeo and Juliet,
    Act III, Scene v