Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Creative Insults

  • You’re a Pair of Monkeys

    You’re a Pair of Monkeys

    Or else you had looked through
    the grate, like a geminy of baboons.

    –Merry Wives of Windsor,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • Passive Aggressive

    Passive Aggressive

    Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle
    in my corrupted blood… But I’ll not chide thee.

    -King Lear,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • Arch Observation

    Arch Observation

    Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
    Become some women best, so that there be not
    Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
    Or a half-moon made with a pen.

    –Winter’s Tale, 
    Act II, Scene i

  • Inferior Savage

    Inferior

    God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

    –Merchant of Venice,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • Dirtbag

    Dirtbag

    Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon.

    —Timon of Athens,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • Timely Retort

    Timely Retort

    Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,
    for he is very slow-gaited.

    —Love’s Labour’s Lost,
    Act III, Scene i

  • It’s All In the Delivery

    All in the Delivery

    A message well sympathized;
    a horse to be ambassador for an ass.

    —Love’s Labour’s Lost,
    Act III, Scene i