It’s Not That Kind of Joke, But It Could Be
Away, you three-inch fool!
–Taming of the Shrew,
Act IV, Scene i

Away, you three-inch fool!
–Taming of the Shrew,
Act IV, Scene i

…And thou unfit for any place but hell.
-Richard III,
Act I, Scene ii

If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool;
for wise men know well enough what monsters
you make of them.
-Hamlet,
Act III, Scene i

You are as a candle, the better part burnt out.
-Henry IV Part 2,
Act I, Scene ii

An admirable evasion of man,
to lay his disposition to the charge of a star.
–King Lear,
Act I, Scene ii

Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad.
–Titus Andronicus,
Act IV, Scene iii

No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:
she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her.
-The Comedy of Errors,
Act III, Scene ii