Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Calculated Insults

  • Vicious Cutdown

    Vicious Cut Down

    I found you as a morsel cold upon [his] trencher;
    nay, you were a fragment.

    –Antony and Cleopatra,
    Act III, Scene xviii

  • Big Talker

    Big Talker

    Foul-spoken coward, that thunder’st with thy tongue,
    And with thy weapon nothing darest perform!

    –Titus Andronicus, 
    Act II, Scene i

  • Shallow Monster

    Shallow Monster

    By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!

    –The Tempest,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • Demure Boys

    Demure Boys

    There’s never none of these demure boys
    to any proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,
    making many fish-meals, that they fall into a kind of male
    green-sickness…They are generally fools and cowards.

    –Henry IV Part 2,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • Not a Compliment

    Not a Compliment

    How green you are and fresh in this old world!

    –King John,
    Act III, Scene iv

  • Implication

    Implication

    Asses are made to bear, and so are you.

    –Taming of the Shrew,
    Act II, Scene i

  • Theoretically True

    Theoretically True

    For there was never yet philosopher 
    That could endure the toothache patiently.

    –Much Ado About Nothing,
    Act V, Scene i