Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Creative Insults

  • October 26

    October 26

    Whipped

    Take but good note, and you shall see in him
    The triple pillar of the world transform’d
    Into a strumpet’s fool: behold and see.

    –Antony and Cleopatra, 
    Act I, Scene i

  • October 22

    October 22

    Spoiled

    Take her back again:
    Give not this rotten orange to your friend…

    —Much Ado About Nothing, 
    Act IV, Scene i

  • October 17

    You’re a Pair of Monkeys

    Or else you had looked through
    the grate, like a geminy of baboons.

    –Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • 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

    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