Shakespeare's Insults

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I picked up this excellent book in the UK a few years ago. This collection features every derogatory comment and insult from all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays. A wealth of witty comments. There are far too many to list here but I have included some of my favorites below:

He has everything that an honest man should not have; what an honest man should have, he has nothing- All's Well That Ends Well

He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is- All's Well That Ends Well

His brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage- As You Like It

You are falser than vows made in wine- As You Like It

Breath of garlic-eaters! -Coriolanus

Take you me for a sponge? -Hamlet

You leather-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch! -Henry IV Part 1

You villainous abominable misleader of youth! -Henry IV Part 1

His face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms. -Henry IV Part 2

He be as good a gentleman as the devil is -Henry V

I will not answer thee with words, but blows -Henry VI Part 1

Unworthy though thou art, I will cope with thee -Henry VI Part 2

He begins a new hell in himself -Henry VIII

All goodness is poison to thy stomach -Henry VIII

He thinks too much; such men are dangerous -Julius Caesar

You have some sick offence within your mind -Julius Caesar

You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face -King Lear

Fit to govern? No, not fit to live -Macbeth

Your sole name blisters our tongue -Macbeth

Come, you are a tedious fool! To the purpose -Measure for Measure

I pray a thousand prayers for thy death; no words to save thee -Measure for Measure

You cowardly, giant-like ox-beef! -A Midsummer Night's Dream

Being no other but as she is, I do not like her -Much Ado About Nothing

You are duller than a great thaw -Much Ado About Nothing

You are an index and prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts -Othello

God and good men hate so foul a liar -Richard II

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes. -Richard III

Thou art unfit for any place but hell -Richard III

A fan to hide her face, for her fan's the fairer face! -Romeo and Juliet

You three-inch fool! -The Taming of the Shrew

Does thy other mouth call me? -The Tempest

Thou disease of a friend! -Timon of Athens

He has not so much a brain as ear-wax -Troilus and Cressida

Female Bastard! -The Winter's Tale

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Longest insult in Shakespeare	Elizabethan insults	Shakespeare is like sex: A beginner's guide	The Art of Insulting
The flame to end all flames	*-(	Macbeth	An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity
iDEATH	How appropriate, you fight like a cow!	Titus Andronicus	Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing	Enough spliffs to render a rhinoceros comatose	Saint Crispin's Day speech	Profanity is the last refuge of the uncreative
A Midsummer Night's Dream	King Lear	Mango	Unhealthy views of female sexuality
Antony and Cleopatra III.I	Troilus and Cressida	Sponge	Timon of Athens

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