Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Insults

  • January 9

    Rambling Talker

    His reasons are as two grains of wheat
    hid in two bushels of chaff:
    you shall seek all day ere you find them,
    and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

    –Merchant of Venice,
    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

  • January 7

    January 7

    Muck Rakers

    Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?

    -Henry VI Part 1,
    Act  I, Scene iii

  • 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 2

    January 2

    Warpaint

    Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
    Thou lily-liver’d boy.

    -Macbeth,
    Act V, Scene iii

  • 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 28

    December 28

    Bye

    Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!

    -Henry VI Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iv