Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Category: Insults

  • 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

  • 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

  • November 1

    Scabs

    What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
    That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
    Make yourselves scabs?

    –Coriolanus,
    Act I, Scene i

  • October 29

    October 29

    Pickle

    The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

    –Coriolanus
    Act V, Scene iv

  • 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 25

    Get Off the Internet

    I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.

    –Henry VI Part 1, 
    Act II, Scene iv