Shakespearean Insults

1. Though you bite so sharp at reasons, you are so empty of them.
-Troilus and Cressida

2. A fusty nut with no kernel.
- Troilus and Cressida

3. Little Helen, farewell;if I can remember thee, I will think of three at court.
- All's well that ends well

4. Methink thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon you.
- All's well that ends well

5. You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
- All's well that ends well

6. I see a good amendment of life in thee, from praying to purse taking.
- Henry IV Part 1

7. How now, my sweet creature of bombast?
- Henry IV Part 1

8. You egg, you fry of treachery!
- Macbeth

9. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
- Macbeth

10. Ill met by moonlight.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream

11. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, for I am sick when I do look on thee.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream

12. What hempen homespun have we swaggering here?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream

13. She's the kitchen wench, and all grease; and I know not what use to put her but to make a lamp of her and run her from her own light. I warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a Poland winter. If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
- The Comedy of Errors

14. I say the gentlemen had drunk himself out of his five senses.
- The Merry Wives of Windsor

15. Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon!
- The Merry Wives of Windsor

16. When good manners shall lie all in one or two man's hands and they unwashed too, tis a foul thing.
- Romeo and Juliet

17. He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not, the ape is dead.
- Romeo and Juliet

18. He is not the flower of courtesy.
- Romeo and Juliet

19. Think'st thou, though her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool to be married to hell?
- The Taming of the Shrew

20. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
- The Merchant of Venice

21. A villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart.
- The Merchant of Venice

22. You have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.
- Much Ado About Nothing

23. Four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one.
- Much Ado About Nothing

24. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- The Tempest

25. Toads, beetles, bats, light on you.
- The Tempest

26. Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.
- The Tempest

27. What strange fish hath made his meal on thee?
- The Tempest

28. Most wicked sir, whom to call brother would even infect my mouth
- The Tempest

29. What have we here?, a man or a fish, dead or alive ?
- The Tempest

30. A most pathetical nit.
- Love's Labour Lost

31. Thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon egg of discretion.
- Love's Labour Lost

32. Weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain.
- Love's Labour Lost

33. His intellect is not replenished, he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts.
- Love's Labour Lost

34. Your bum is the greatest thing about you, so that, in the beastliest sense, you are Pomey the Great.
- Measure for Measure

35. O you beast, o faithless coward, o dishonest wretch. Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice.
- Measure for Measure

36. Thy sin is not accidental, but a trade.
- Measure for Measure

37. It is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.
- Measure for Measure

38. A fool, a coward, one all of luxury, an ass, a madman.
- Measure for Measure

39. From the extremest upward of thy head to the descent and dust beneath thy foot, a most toad spotted traitor.
- King Lear

40. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath.
- King John

41. On my knee I give heaven thanks that I am not like to thee.
- King John

42. And in his brain which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places.
- As you like it

43. Lets meet as little as we can.
- As you like it

44. I desire that we be better strangers.
- As you like it

45. 'Tis such fools as you
That makes the world full of ill-favor'd children.
- As you like it

46. I was seeking for a fool when I found you.
- As you like it

47. A fellow of the strangest mind in the world.
- Twelfth Night

48. As I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together.
- Cymbeline

49. I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables.
- Coriolanus

50. He never broke any mans head but his own, and that was against a post when he was drunk.
- Henry V

51. Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world.
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre