Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Colorful Insults

  • Lowest of the Low

    Lowest of the Low

    You peasant swain! Youu whoreson malt-horse drudge!

    –Taming of the Shrew,
    Act IV, Scene i

  • Slug

    Slug

    Thou drumble, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot!

    –Comedy of Errors,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • Everything and the Kitchen Sink

    Everything and the Kitchen Sink

    You starvelling, you eel-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, you bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish–O for breath to utter what is like thee!-you tailor’s-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • Fiend

    Fiend

    Foul fiend…and hag of all despite.

    –Henry VI Part 1, 
    Act III, Scene ii

  • Profane Wretch

    Profane Wretch

    What profane wretch art thou?

    –Othello,
    Act I, Scene i

  • Throwing Stones

    Throwing Stones

    Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!”

    –Henry IV Part 1,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • Dumb Cluck

    Dumbhead

    Thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.

    –Love’s Labour’s Lost,
    Act V, Scene i