SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Thou subtle, perjur'd, false, disloyal man!

AS YOU LIKE IT Thou art like a toad; ugly and venemous.

THE TEMPEST Thine forward voice, now, is to speak well of thine friend; thine backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE Thou art a flesh-monger, a fool and a coward.  

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.

CYMBELINE Thy tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile.  

HENRY IV PART 2 You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.  

MACBETH Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver'd boy.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Thou art as loathsome as a toad.  

HENRY IV PART 1 Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!

MEASURE FOR MEASUREA flesh monger, a fool, and a coward.

HENRY IV PART 1 That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?

HENRY IV PART 1 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 Peace, ye fat guts!

HENRY V There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.  

RICHARD III Thou poisonous bunch-back'd toad!

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RICHARD III Thou art unfit for any place but hell.  

HAMLET Thou are pigeon-liver'd and lack gall.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Your virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese.  

HENRY V Thine face is not worth sunburning.

AS YOU LIKE IT Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.

HENRY IV PART You are as a candle, the better burnt out.

HAMLET If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.  

A dog, a cat, a mouse, a rat to scratch a man to death (Romeo and Juliet)A dwarfish thief (Macbeth)A fellow of the strangest mind in the world (Twelfth Night)A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell (Twelfth Night)A fool, a coward, one all of luxury, an ass, a madman (Measure for Measure)A foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! (Hamlet)A huge translation of hypocrisy, vilely compiled, profound simplicity (Love's Labour Lost)A knot you are of damned blood suckers (Richard III)A monster, a very monster in apparel (The Taming of the Shrew)A most pathetical nit (Love's Labour Lost)A plague on both your houses (Romeo and Juliet)A pox damn you, you muddy rascal, is that all the comfort you bring me? (Henry IV Part 2)A ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder and commit the oldest of ins the newest kind of ways (Henry IV Part 2)A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint (Troilus and Cressida)A slippery and subtle knave (Othello)A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, uncapable of pity, void and empty from any dram of mercy (The Merchant of Venice)A vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth (Henry V)A villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart (The Merchant of Venice)A whitely wanton with a velvet brow, with two pitch balls stuck in her face for eyes (Love's Labour Lost)A wholesome jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him (Cymbeline)A wonder and a pointing stock to every idle rascal (Henry VI Part 2)Ah, you whoreson loggerhead, you were born to do me shame (Love's Labour Lost)All that is within him does condemn itself for being there (Macbeth)All the infections that the sun sucks up from bogs, fens, flats, on Prospero fall, and make him by

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inch meal a disease (The Tempest)Am I your bird?, I mean to shift my bush (The Taming of the Shrew)An admirable evasion of whore master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star (King Lear)An index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts (Othello)And in his brain which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places (Antony & Cleopatra)Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast killed (Much Ado About Nothing)As ass head and a coxcomb and a knave, a thin faced knave and gull (Twelfth Night)As goodness is poison to your stomach (King Henry VIII)As I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together (Cymbeline)As loathsome as a toad (Titus Andronicus)As some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dailliance treads and recks not his own rede (Hamlet)Away with those giglets (Measure for Measure)Away!, Thou art poison to my blood (Cymbeline)Away, you three inch fool (The Taming of the Shrew) Base dunghill villain and mechanical, I'll have thy head (Henry VI Part 2) Base slave, thy words are blunt, and so art thou (Henry VI Part 2)Beauforts red sparkling eyes blab his hearts malice, and Suffolks cloudy brew his stormy hate (Henry VI Part 2)Beg that thou may have leave to hang thyself (The Merchant of Venice)Bite him to death I prithee (The Tempest)Bless me, what a fry of fornication is at the door (King Henry VIII)Boils and plagues plaster you over, that you may be abhorred farther than seen and one infect another against the wind a mile. You souls of geese that bear the shapes of men (Coriolanus)Both like serpents are, who, though they feed on sweetst flowers, yet they poison breed (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops! (Much Ado About Nothing) Damn her, lewd minx (Othello)Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile (Richard III)Degenerate and base art thou (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)Despised substance of divinest show (Romeo and Juliet)Destroy your sight with a new Gorgon (Macbeth)Die a beggar (Antony & Cleopatra)Die and be damned (Henry V)Dissembling harlot, thou are false in all (Comedy of Errors)Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life (Henry IV Part 1)Down, down to hell, and say I send thee thither (Henry VI Part 3)Drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will be swine drunk, and in his sleep he does little harm, save to his bedclothes about him (All's well that ends well) False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand, hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey (King Lear)Falstaff sweats to death and lards the lean earth as he walks along (Henry IV Part 1)Fie, thou dishonest Satan (Twelfth Night)Fiend, thou torments me ere I come to hell (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)Fit to govern, No, not to live (Macbeth)For anything I know Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already he be killed with your hard

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opinions (Henry IV Part 2)For I knew the young Count to be dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to virginity, and devours up all the fry it finds (All's well that ends well)Foul spoken coward, that thund'rest with thy tongue, and with thy weapon nothing dares perform (Titus Andronicus)Four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one (Much Ado About Nothing)Frailty, thy name is woman (Hamlet)France is a dog hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot (All's well that ends well)From the extremest upward of thy head to the descent and dust beneath thy foot, a most toad spotted traitor (King Lear) Hag-seed hence (The Tempest)Hang cur, hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker (The Tempest)Hang yourself, you muddy conger (Henry IV Part 2)Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets (Romeo and Juliet)Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, no touch of bashfulness (A Midsummer Night's Dream)Having flown over may knavish professions, he settled only on rogue (The Winter's Tale)He be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Beelzebub himself (Henry V)He begins a new hell in himself (King Henry VIII)He did not flow from honourable sources (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best there is. In a retreat he outruns any lackey, marry, in the coming on he has the cramp (All's well that ends well)He has not so much brain as ear wax (Troilus and Cressida)He hath a half face (King John)He hath been five thousand years a boy (Love's Labour Lost)He hath eaten me out of house and home, he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his (Henry IV Part 2)He hath out-villiain'd villainy so far that the rarity redeems him (All's well that ends well)He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not, the ape is dead (Romeo and Juliet)He is a dreamer, let us leave him (Julius Caesar)He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, ill faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere, vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, stigmatical in making, worse in mind (Comedy of Errors)He is melancholy without cause (Troilus and Cressida)He is not the flower of courtesy (Romeo and Juliet)He is open to incontinency (Hamlet)He made me mad to see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, and talk so like a waiting gentlewoman (Henry IV Part 1)He never broke any mans head but his own, and that was against a post when he was drunk (Henry V)He speaks nothing but madman (Twelfth Night)He that depends upon your favours swims with fins of lead, and hews down oaks with rushes (Coriolanus)He that is likest to a hogs head (Love's Labour Lost)He was a frantic fool, hiding his better jests in blunt behaviour (The Taming of the Shrew)Heaven truly knows that thou are as false as hell (Othello)Hell is empty and all the devils are here (The Tempest)He'll yield the crow a pudding one of these days (Henry V)Her benefits are mightily misplaced (Antony & Cleopatra)Her complexion is like Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing like so clean kept, for why, she

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sweats, a man may go over shoes in the grime of it (Comedy of Errors)Here comes those I have done good to against my will (The Winter's Tale)He's a disease that must be cut away (Coriolanus)He's a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of not one good quality (All's well that ends well)He's opposite to humanity (Timon of Athens)His beastly mind (Cymbeline)His breath stinks with eating toasted cheese (Henry VI Part 2)His complextion is perfect gallows (The Tempest)His days are foul and his drink dangerous (Timon of Athens)His garments are rich but he wears them not handsomely (The Winter's Tale)His intellect is not replenished, he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts (Love's Labour Lost)His kisses are Judas's own children (Antony & Cleopatra)His will is most malignant (King Henry VIII)His wit's as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard (Henry IV Part 2)How foul and loathsome is thine image (The Taming of the Shrew)Hoy doy, what a sweep of vanity comes this way (Timon of Athens) Lady, you are the cruelst she alive (Twelfth Night)Leave thy vain bibble-babble (Twelfth Night)Lets meet as little as we can (Antony & Cleopatra)Like the toad, ugly and venomous (Antony & Cleopatra)Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I will think of three at court (All's well that ends well)Live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, strewed in corruption, honeying and making love over a nasty sty (Hamlet)Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying (Henry IV Part 2) Men are April when they woo, December when they wed (Antony & Cleopatra)Men from children nothing differ (Much Ado About Nothing)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)More of your conversation would infect my brain (Coriolanus)Most wicked sir, whom to call brother would even infect my mouth (The Tempest)My two schoolfellows. Whom I shall trust as I will adders fangs (Hamlet)My wife's a hobby horse (The Winter's Tale) Never hung poison on a fouler toad (Richard III)No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip, she is spherical, like a globe, I could find out contries in her (Comedy of Errors)Not shaped for sportive tricks, nor made to court an amorous looking glass (Richard III)Nothing but lechery, all incontinent varlets (Troilus and Cressida)Now put it, God, in the physician's mind to help him to his grave immediately (Pericles, Prince of Tyre) O base hungarian wight (The Merry Wives of Windsor)O curse of marraige, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites (Othello)O disloyal thing, that shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st a years age on me (Cymbeline)O most insatiate and luxurious woman (Titus Andronicus)O slave, of no more trust than love that's hir'd (Antony & Cleopatra)O tigers heart wrapped in a woman's hide (Henry VI Part 3)

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O you beast, o faithless coward, o dishonest wretch. Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice (Measure for Measure)O you hard hearts, you cruel men (Julius Caesar)O, ho, monster (The Tempest)O, were mine eye bans into bullets turned, that in a rage I might shoot them at your faces (Henry VI Part 1)Observe him, for the love of mockery (Twelfth Night)Oh, these deliberate fools (The Merchant of Venice)On my knee I give heaven thanks that I am not like to thee (King John)Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon (The Merry Wives of Windsor)Out of my sight, thou dost infect mine eyes (Richard III)Out, dunghill (King John)Out, you mad headed ape. A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen as you are tossed with (Henry IV Part 1) Peace, ye fat guts (Henry IV Part 1)Pernicious and indubitate beggar (Love's Labour Lost)Poisonous bunch backed toad (Richard III)Pray you, stand farther from me (Antony & Cleopatra)Priests must become mockers, if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you (Coriolanus)Put thy face between his sheets and do the office of warming pan (Henry V) Say wall eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey this growing image of thy fiend like face (Titus Andronicus)Scurvy, old, filthy, scurry lord (All's well that ends well)She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)She is lumpish, heavy, melancholy (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)She is peevish, sullun, forward, proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)She is spread of late into a goodly bulk (The Winter's Tale)She is too mean to have her name repeated (All's well that ends well)She speaks yet she says nothing (Romeo and Juliet)She's a great lubbery boy (The Merry Wives of Windsor)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 (Comedy of Errors)Should all despair that hath revolted wives, the tenth of mankind would hang themselves (The Winter's Tale)Silence that fellow, I would he had some casuse to prattle for himself (Measure for Measure)Sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom (Henry VI Part 2)Slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile (Cymbeline)Slave, souless villain, dog ! O rarely base! (Antony & Cleopatra)Small curs are not regarded when they grin (Henry VI Part 2)Snakes, in my heart blood warmed, that sting my heart. Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)So lust though to a radiant angel linked, will sate itself in a celestial bed and prey on garbage

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(Hamlet)So vile a lout (King John)So, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge thy glutton bosom? (Henry IV Part 2)Soft and dull eyed fool (The Merchant of Venice)Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (Hamlet)Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens (Antony & Cleopatra) Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born to signify thou came to bite the world (Henry VI Part 3)Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, for I am sick when I do look on thee (A Midsummer Night's Dream)That is a perilous shot out of an elder gun (Henry V)That same purpose clanger, that sly devil, that broker that still breaks the pate of faith, that daily break vow (King John)That there should be small love amongst these sweet knaves, and all this courtesy, the strain of man's bred out into baboon and monkey (Timon of Athens)That were to enlard his fat already pride (Troilus and Cressida)The common people swarm like summer flies (Henry VI Part 3)The complaints I have heard of you I do not all believe;'tis my slowness that I do not, for I know you lack not folly to commit them and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours. (All's well that ends well)The food is such as hath been belched on by infected lungs (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)The music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony (Love's Labour Lost)The pox upon her green sickness (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes, when he walks he moves like an engine and the ground shrinks before his treading (Coriolanus)The terror of the French, the scarecrow that affrights our children so. (Henry VI Part 1)The very butcher of silk button (Romeo and Juliet)The wicked fire of lust have melted him in his own grease (The Merry Wives of Windsor)There are a sort of men whose visages do cream and mantle like a tanding pond (The Merchant of Venice)There is mischief in this man (King Henry VIII)There is neither honesty, manhood or good fellowship in thee (Henry IV Part 1)There is no more valour in that Poins than in a wild duck (Henry IV Part 1)There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell as thou shall be (King John)There's many a man hath more hair than wit (Comedy of Errors)There's small choice in rotten apples (The Taming of the Shrew)They were the most needless creatures living (Timon of Athens)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)This bawd, this broker, this all changing word (King John)This butcher's cur is venom mouthed (King Henry VIII)This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse, there was no money in it. Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains for he had none (Cymbeline)This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet (King Lear)This is the silliest stuff that I ever heard (A Midsummer Night's Dream)This woman's an easy glove, my lord, she goes off and on at pleasure (All's well that ends well)Those healths will make thee and thy state look ill (Timon of Athens)Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood (King Lear)Thou art a traitor, false to thy gods, thy brother and thy father (King Lear)

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Thou art like the harpy, which, to betray, dost with thine angels face, seize with thine eagle's talons (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)Thou art more deep damned than Prince Lucifer (King John)Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)Thou cruel, ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature (Henry V)Thou crusty batch of nature (Troilus and Cressida)Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat (Henry V)Thou damned tripe visaged rascal (Henry IV Part 2)Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death (Romeo and Juliet)Thou didst drink the stale of horses and the guilded puddle which beasts would cough at (Antony & Cleopatra)Thou disease of a friend (Timon of Athens)Thou dost over ween in all (Titus Andronicus)Thou fresh piece of excellent witchcraft (The Winter's Tale)Thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon egg of discretion (Love's Labour Lost)Thou has no more brain than I have in mine elbows (Troilus and Cressida)Thou hast need o fmore rags to lay on thee (The Winter's Tale)Thou haught insulting man (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)Thou little thing better than earth (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)Thou lump of foul deformity (Richard III)Thou misshapen Dick (Henry VI Part 3)Thou most lting slave (The Tempest)Thou odoriferous stench, sound rottenness (King John)Thou sodden witted Lord (Troilus and Cressida)Thou unfit for any place but hell (Richard III)Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter (King Lear) Thou wrong'st a gentleman who is as far from thy report as thou from honour (Cymbeline)Though stool for a witch (Troilus and Cressida)Though thing of no bowels, thou (Troilus and Cressida)Though you bite so sharp at reasons, you are so empty of them (Troilus and Cressida)Thy bones are hollow, impiety has made a feast of thee (Measure for Measure)Thy detestable bones (King John)Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat (Romeo and Juliet)Thy mothers name is ominous to children (Richard III)Thy sin is not accidental, but a trade (Measure for Measure)Tis thy presence that exhales blood from cold and empty veins where no blood dwells (Richard III)Toads, beetles, bats, light on you (The Tempest) Use the carp as you may, for he looks like a poor, decayed, ingenious, foolish, rascally knave (All's well that ends well) Vile fiend and shameless courtesan (Henry VI Part 1)Vile worm, you were overlooked even in thy birth (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike (The Tempest)We leak in your chimney and your chamber lye breeds fleas like a loach (Henry IV Part 1)We may account thee a whoremaster and knave (Timon of Athens)We need no grave to bury honesty, there's not a grain of it the face to sweeten of the whole dungy earth (The Winter's Tale)Wedded be thou to the hags of hell (Henry VI Part 2)Weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain (Love's Labour Lost)

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Were I like thee, I would throw away myself (Timon of Athens)What a brazen faced varlet art thou (King Lear)What a caterwauling do you keep here (Twelfth Night)What a caterwauling dost thou keep (Titus Andronicus)What a disgrace it is to me that I should remember your name (Henry IV Part 2)What a drunken knave the sea was to cast thee in our way (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)What a fool art thou, a rampaging fool, to brag and stamp and swear (King John)What a maidenly man at arms you have become (Henry IV Part 2)What a slave art thou to hack thy sword as thou hast done, and then say it was in a fight (Henry IV Part 1)What a wretched and peevish fellow is this King (Henry V)What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath (King John)What have we here ?, a man or a fish, dead or alive (The Tempest)What hempen homespun have we swaggering here (A Midsummer Night's Dream)What rubbish, what offal (Julius Caesar)What shall I call thee when thou art a man ? (Antony & Cleopatra)What strange fish hath made his meal on thee (The Tempest)What such fellows as I do, crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us (Hamlet)What tempest, I trow, threw this whale with so many tons of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor)What's the matter you dissentious rogue that, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs (Coriolanus)When good manners shall lie all in one or two man's hands and they unwashed too, tis a foul thing (Romeo and Juliet)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)Where we are there's daggers in mens smiles (Macbeth)Where will thou find a cavern dark enough to mask thy monstrous visage (Julius Caesar)Whose horrible image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs (Macbeth)Why he's a man of wax (Romeo and Juliet)Why, this have not a fingers decency (Troilus and Cressida)Why, thou clay brained guts, thou knotty pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow catch (Henry IV Part 1)Why, thou full dish of fool (Troilus and Cressida)Would thou were clean enough to spit on (Timon of Athens)Wretched, bloody and usurping boar (Richard III) You are as a candle, the better part burnt out (Henry IV Part 2)You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave (All's well that ends well)You are now sailed into the north of my ladies opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard (Twelfth Night)You are rough and hairy (The Winter's Tale)You are strangely troublesome (King Henry VIII)You are the must chaff, and you are smelt above the moon (Coriolanus)You Banbury cheese (The Merry Wives of Windsor)You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things (Julius Caesar)You egg, you fry of treachery (Macbeth)You have as little honesty as honour (King Henry VIII)

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You have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness (Much Ado About Nothing)You heart hearted adamant (A Midsummer Night's Dream)You heedless joltheads and unmannered slaves (The Taming of the Shrew)You kiss by the book (Romeo and Juliet)You lisp and wear strange suits (Antony & Cleopatra)You put sharp weapons in a madmans hands (Henry VI Part 2)You ratcatcher (Romeo and Juliet)You reek as a sacrifice. Where air comes out, air comes in, there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent (Cymbeline)You rise to play and go to bed to work (Othello)You ruinious butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur (Troilus and Cressida)You secret, black and midnight hags (Macbeth)You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so (Macbeth)You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds and bowed like bondmen (Julius Caesar)You talk greasily, your lips grow foul (Love's Labour Lost)You tread upon my patience (Henry IV Part 1)You whoreson cullionly barbermonger (King Lear)You would answer very well to a whipping (All's well that ends well)You, minion, are too saucy (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)You, that are polluted with your lusts, stained with the guiltless blood of innocents, corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices (Henry VI Part 1)Your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be entombed in as ass's pack saddle (Coriolanus)Your bum is the greatest thing about you, so that, in the beastliest sense, you are Pomey the Great (Measure for Measure)Your heart is crammed with arrogancy, spleen and pride (King Henry VIII)Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heel and make a quagmire of your mingled brains (Henry VI Part 1)Your means are very slender, and your waste is great (Henry IV Part 2)Your peevish chastity is not worth a breakfast in the cheapest country (Pericles, Prince of Tyre)Your purpled hands do reek and smoke (Julius Caesar)

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BoorBosom Black As DeathBotcher's ApprenticeBottled SpiderBoy Of TearsBraggartBraggart VileBragging JackBrassy BosomBratBrazen- Faced VarletBrazen-FaceBreeder Of Dire EventsBreeder Of SinnersBroker-LackeyBubbleBugBully HerculesBully-RookBurly-Boned ClownBusy Meddling FiendButcherButcher's CurDaily Break-VowDainty DominieDam Of HorrorDamnable Both-Sides RogueDamn'd WitchDamned And Luxurious Mountain-GoatDamned Epicurean RascalDamned Furious WightDamned VillainDan-CupidDangerous And Lascivious BoyDastard FoemanDastard NobleDear Lady DisdainDear ManikinDear VenomDeath's Face In A RingDeath's FoolDeath's Head With A Bone In His MouthDebile WretchDecayedDecayed DotantDeceitful DamDecrepit MiserDeformed ThiefDegenerate

Degenerate BastardDemi-DevilDemi-WolfDespiteful JunoDetested KiteDetested ParasiteDevilDevil IncarnateDevilish KnaveDevilish SlaveDevils Being OffendedDevil's ButcherDevil's DamDevout CowardDiana's ForesterDiffused Infection Of A ManDilatory SlothDiscarded Unjust ServingmenDisguised CheaterDishcloutDishonest RascalDishonest WretchDishonorable BoyDisloyal ManDismalDisobedient WretchDissembling Abominable VarletDissembling HarlotDissembling VillainDissentious RogueDistrustful RecreantDog-ApeDog-Fox Not Proved Worth A BlackberryDoghearted DaughterDoltDon WormDotardDoting WizardDouble HeartDouble-DealerDouble-Meaning ProphesierDoubtfulDove-Feather'd RavenDread Prince Of PlacketsDrudgeDrunkardDrunken SlaveDry FoolDull And Factious Nobles

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Dull And Muddy-Mottled RascalDull EarthDull FoolDull ThingDullardDullest Peasant In The CampDumb InnocentDumb Statue Or Breathing StoneDumb-ShowDunghillDunghill GroomFaithless CowardFalse BloodFalse CaterpillarsFalse FiendFalse Murd'rous CowardFalse PeerFalse ProfessorFalse ThiefFalse Trembling CowardFalsehoundFamished BeggarFancy-MongerFashion-Mongering BoyFat And Bean-Fed HorseFat And Greasy CitizenFat ChuffFat FriendFat RogueFatal Screech-OwlFat-Brained FollowersFather RuffianFat-Kidneyed RascalFawning GreyhoundFawning PublicanFearful-Flying HareFeigned FriendFell Banning HagFell Cur Of Bloody KindFell SerpentFell-Lurking CurFellow FalseFickle ChangelingFiendFiend AngelicalFiend Of HellFilth As Thou ArtFilthy HagFilthy Officer

Filthy TraitorFilthy Worsted-Stocking KnaveFishmongerFlap-Ear'd KnaveFlattererFlattering RascalFlax-WenchFleering Tell-TaleFleshmongerFlinty TartarFlirt-GillFoolish CarrionFoolish CurFoolish Extravagant SpiritFoolish GnatFoolish Idle BoyFoolish KnaveFoolish LoutForeign RecreantFoul AdultressFoul And DangerousFoul And Ugly Mists Of VapoursFoul And Ugly WitchFoul BlotFoul CollierFoul Contending RebelFoul Defacer Of God's HandiworkFoul FiendFoul Indigested LumpFoul KnaveFoul OffenderFoul SlutFoul StigmaticFoul SwineFoul Wrinkled WitchFoul-Mouthed And Caluminous KnaveFoulspoken CowardFoul-Tainted FleshFrantic FoolFrantic WomanFraudful ManFreckled Whelp Hag-BornFrosty-Spirited RogueFustilarianFusty Nut With No KernelFusty Plebeian

Hag Of All DespiteHag Of Hell

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Half MalcontentHalf-FaceHalf-Penny Purse Of WitHard HeartHardhearted LordHare-Brained SlaveHarpyHater Of LoveHead Of A BodkinHeap Of WrathHeartless HindHedge-Born SwainHeedless JoltheadHeir Of ShameHell-BoundHellhoundHellish DogHell's Black IntelligencerHempen HomespunHerb WomanHerd Of Boils And PlaguesHereditary HangmanHerring Without A RoeHideous ObjectHigh-Minded StrumpetHindmost ManHobby-HorseHodgepuddingHollow HeartHollow-EyedHollow-Hearted FriendHomely SwainHoneyseed RogueHorn-MadHorrible ShadowHorrible VillainHorse-DrenchHot TermagentHourly Promise-BreakerHuge Bombard Of SackHulkHyperbolical FiendHypocriteLack-BrainLack-LoveLanguagelessLapland SorcererLean Raw-Boned RascalLean Unwash'd Artificer

Lean-Faced VillainLean-Witted FoolLeathern- JerkinLecherousLeprous WitchLewd InterpreterLewd MinxLibbard's HeadLiege Of All Loiterers And MalcontentsLily-Liver'd BoyLily-LiveredLisping Hawthorn-BudLittle Better Than False KnavesLittle Peevish BoyLiving MurmurerLiving RascalLoathed EnemyLoathsome LeperLoggerheadLong-Tongued Babbling GossipLord LackbeardLord Of Folded ArmsLouseLouse Of A LazarLousyLousy FootboyLousy KnaveLousy KnaveLow- Spirited SwainLowborn LassLowly VassalLuciferLunaticLunatic KnaveMad AssMad MisleaderMad Mustachio Purple-Hued MaltwormMad WagMadam MitigationMad-Brain RudesbyMadcapMad-Cap RuffianMad-Headed ApeMagot-PieMalapertMalicious CensurerMalignant ThingMalkinMalmsy-Nose Knave

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Malt-HorseMan Of FalsehoodMan Of WaxMan Replete With MocksManifest ConspiratorMankind WitchMannish CowardMannish YouthMan-Queller And Woman-QuellerMarble- Breasted TyrantMarble-Hearted FiendMars Of MalcontentsMartyr Slain In Cupid's WarsMean-Born ManMeanest GroomMeasureless LiarMechanic SlaveMechanical Salt-Butter RogueMeddling PriestMeek BearMen Of Grosser BloodMen Proud Of DestructionMerely A Dumb-ShowMidnight HagMildewed EarMilk- Livered ManMilksopMindless SlaveMinionMinion Of The MoonMisbegotten DivelMiscreantMisshapen DickMistress Minion YouMongrelMonsieur Mock-WaterMonstrous ApparitionMonstrous MalefactorMoral FoolMortal WretchMost Acute JuvenalMost Arch HereticMost Credulous FoolMost DegenerateMost Delicate MonsterMost FoulMost Impenetrable CurMost Insatiate And Luxurious WomanMost Malicious Foe

Most Perfidious And Drunken MonsterMost Profane CoxcombMost Putified CoreMost Simple ClownMost Toad-Spotted TraitorMost Unjust KnaveMost Villainous KnaveMost Wicked FiendMother Of FoolsMotion GenerativeMotley-Minded GentlemanMountain ForeignerMountain Of MummyMountain-SquireMountebankMouse Of VirtueMuddy KnaveMumbling FoolMurderous CoxcombMuscle-ShellMutableMute ContemplativeMy Lady TongueNatural Coward Without InstinctNaughty KnaveNaughty VarletNest Of Hollow BosomsNewts And Blind-WormsNight- BrawlerNighty GossipNimble-Footed MadcapNoisome StenchNotable ContemptNotable CowardNotable LubberNotable PirateNotable StrumpetNotorious BawdObscure And Lowly SwainObstinate HereticOdd WormOf Intolerable EntrailsOld Crab-TreeOld Cuckold With Horns On His HeadOld DogOld Feeble CarrionOld GoatOld Love-MongerOld Pantaloon

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Old RuffianOld Sheep- Whistling RogueOld TrotOld White- Bearded SatanOne Besotted On Sweet DelightsOne DeformedOne Full Of Bread And SlothOne Full Of SpleenOne Half- LunaticOne Light Of BrainOne Not Worth GooseberryOne O' Th' False OnesOne Opposite To HumanityOpen-ArseOur Rarer MonstersOut-Dared DastardOutward-Sainted DeputyOverwheening RagOverwheening TraitorPagan RascalPale Hard-Hearted WenchPaltry FellowPanderly RascalParasiteParcel-BawdPeasant FootboyPedasculePedlar's ExcrementPeevish BaggagePeevish BratPeevish FoolPeevish OfficerPeevish SchoolboyPerfidious SlavePeriwigpated FellowPernicious And Indubitate BeggarPernicious Bloodsucker Of Sleeping MenPernicious CaitiffPernicious UsurerPestilent Complete KnavePickle-HerringPigeon-Egg Of DiscretionPigeon-LiverPilchPintpotPlague- SorePoisonous Bunch-Backed ToadPoisonous SlavePolled Bachelor

PoltroonPoor Cuckoldy KnavePoor DiscontentPoor FragmentPoor Inch Of NaturePoor ServitorPoor Slight SoresPopinjayPorter Of Hell GatePragging KnavePraterPrating CoxcombPrating MountebankPrating PeasantPrecious PanderPrecious VarletPreposterous AssPresumptuous DamePresumptuous VassalPrick-Eared Cur Of IcelandPrincoxProdigalProfane FellowProfessed TyrantProgeny Of EvilsProud Disdainful HaggardPuffed ManPuisny TilterPuke-StockingPuling CuckoldPunkPuny WhipsterPurpose- ChangerPuttockRag-Of-MuffinRampallianRamping FoolRancorous EnemyRank WeedRank-Scented MeinyRare Parrot-TeacherRascal BeadleRascal FiddlerRascally KnaveRash WantonRat Without A TailRavenous FishRavenous TigerRebel's Whore

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Recreant And Most Degenerate TraitorRecreant LimbRed- Tailed BumblebeeRemorselessReverent BraggartRevolted TapsterRibaudred NagRiddling MerchantRing- CarrierRoaring DevilRoast meat For WormsRobustiousRogue And Peasant SlaveRooting HogRotten AppleRotten MedlarRotten ThingRough Heart Of FlintRound Little WormRoynish ClownRude BoyRude CompanionRude Despiser Of Good MannersRude Unpolished HindRude WretchRudeliest Welcome To This WorldRug-Headed Kernes Which Live Like VenomRump-Fed RonyonRunagateRustic MountaineerSad FoolSad WrackSanctimonious PirateSatirical RogueScabScallScamblingScarecrowScarlet HypocriteScauldScolding CrookbackScolding QueenScorn Of WomenScornful PieceScoundrels And SubtractorsScroyleScullionScurvy Fellow

Scurvy HildingScurvy Jack- A- Nape PriestScurvy Jack-Dog PriestScurvy KnaveScurvy LordScurvy MonsterScurvy PoliticianScurvy Railing KnaveScurvy- Valiant AssSecret And Villainous ContriverSecure AssSerpent HeartShag-Haired Crafty KernShallowest Thickskin Of That Barren SortShallow-Hearted BoyShameless CalletShameless CourtesanSharp-Looking WretchShe- WolfShe-FoxShotten HerringShoulder-ClapperShrewd And Knavish SpriteShrewd ContriverShrewd Knave And UnhappyShrieve's FoolShrill- Voiced SupplicantSick InterpreterSicked SpiritSilken-Coated SlaveSimple BawdSimple GullSimp'ring DameSimp'ring SireSir KnobSkains-MateSlanderous TongueSlave Of Nature And The Son Of HellSlovenly Unhandsome CorseSlugSly And Constant KnaveSly DivelSly Frantic WretchSmiling PickthanksSmooth-Fac'd GentlemanSmooth-TongueSneaking FellowSnipt-Taffeta FellowSo Dissolute A Crew

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So Vile A LoutSober-Suited MatronSoft And Dull-Eyed FoolSome Carry-TaleSome DickSome Mumble-NewsSome Please-ManSome Slight ZanySon And Heir Of A Mongrel BitchSon Of DarknessSorrowful IssueSotSoulless VillainSour FerrymanSour HusbandSourest-Natured Dog That LivesSoused GurnetSpanish-PouchSpartan DogSpendthrift Of TongueSpongey OfficerSpotted And Inconstant ManSpotted Snake With Double TongueSquire Of Low DegreeStale Old Mouse-Eaten Dry CheeseStarved SnakeStern Untutored ChurlStoney- Hearted VillainStony AdversaryStony ImageStrange FishStrange FliesStrange SerpentStrange SoreStrangely- Visited PeopleStretch-Mouthed RascalStubborn Ancient KnaveStubborn SpiritStuffed Cloakbag Of GutsSturdy RebelSubtle WhoreSuch A Dish Of Skim MilkSuch A SnipeSuch Toasts-And-ButterSuch Waterflies And Dimunitives Of NatureSummer-FliesSuperfluous LackeySuperstitious Idle-Headed Eld

Swoll'n Parcel Of DropsiesSworn RioterTaffeta PunkTallow-FaceTapsterTardy SluggardTardy SonTattered ProdigalTedious Old FoolTedious Stumbling-BlockThat Grey IniquityThat Has No More Brain Than A StoneThat Reverend ViceThat Smiles His Cheek In YearsThat Work For BreadThe Foul Fiend FlibbertigibbetThe Lying'st Knave In ChristendomThe Most Needless Creatures LivingThe Sweating LordThe Very Butcher Of A Silk ButtonThick-SkinThief Of LoveThing Most BrutishThou Bitch-Wolf's SonThou Boy-QuellerThou Bright Defiler Of Hymen's Purest BedThou BurrThou CacodemonThou CatThou Core Of EnvyThou Counterfeit To Thy True FriendThou Coward MajestyThou Cruell'st She AliveThou Crusty Botch Of NatureThou Damnable Box Of EnvyThou Damnable FellowThou Damned BasenessThou Damned Door-KeeperThou Detestable MawThou Disease Of A FriendThou Dishonest SatanThou DissemblerThou Double VillainThou Dreadful Minister Of HellThou EarthThou Elvish-MarkedThou False Deluding SlaveThou Finch EggThou Flea

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Thou Foul ThiefThou Fresh Piece Of Excellent WitchcraftThou Friend Of An Ill FashionThou Full Dish Of FoolThou Great- Siz'd CowardThou Green Sarsenet Flap For A Sore EyeThou Hateful Withered HagThou HaughtThou Hilding Of A Devilish SpiritThou Idle Immaterial Skein Of Sleeve SilkThou Issue Of A Mangy DogThou Latter SpringThou Little Better Thing Than EarthThou Loathed Issue Of Thy Father's LoinsThou Loathsomest Scab In GreeceThou Lob Of SpiritsThou Lump Of Foul DeformityThou Map Of WoeThou Mongrel Beef-Witted LordThou Most Lying SlaveThou Most Untoward KnaveThou Naughty VarletThou NitThou Odiferous StenchThou Ordinary FoolThou Painted MaypoleThou Public CommonerThou RagThou Rag Of HonourThou RemnantThou Salt-Water ThiefThou Scarlet SinThou SergeThou Side-Piercing SightThou Silly GentlemanThou Sodden-Witted LordThou Stool For A WitchThou Tassel Of A Prodigal's PurseThou Tedious RogueThou ThimbleThou ThingThou Thing Of No BowelsThou ThreadThou Tomb Of DeathThou TortoiseThou Unadvised ScoldThou Unconfinable BasenessThou Unnecessary LetterThou Villain Base

Thou WeedThou Winter-Cricket ThouThreadbare JugglerTicklebrainTime's FliesTimorous ThiefTimorous WretchTired JadeToadToadstoolTongueless BlockTongues O' Th' Common MouthToothpickerTraitorTraitor To The Name Of GodTraitorous RoutTransgressing SlaveTransparent HereticTrashTreacherousTreacherous SonTriple-Turn'd WhoreTriton Of The MinnowsTroll- My-DamesTroubler Of The World's PeaceTruantTrue DrunkardTrue-Bred CowardTrullTrunk Of HumoursTrusty VillainTun Of ManTurdTurtleTwanging JackUnbaked And Doughy YouthUncivil KernUncivil LadyUncleanly ScruplesUnconstant WomankindUnfeeling FoolUngenitured AgentUngracious BoyUnhallowed SlaveUnhappy StrumpetUnlawful BawdUnlettered Small-Knowing SoulUnlick'd Bear-WhelpUnmanner'd Slave

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Unmannered DogUnmarmerly IntruderUnnatural HagUnpaved EunuchUnreal Mock'ryUnrespective BoyUnreverend And Unhallow'd FriarUnruly WomanUnspeaking SotUntaught KnavesUnthrifty KnaveUnthrifty SonUntutord LadUnweighing FellowUnwholesome HumidityUnworthy BrotherUpstartUsurer's MenUsurping BoarUsurping ProditerVain FoolValiant FleaValiant IgnoranceVanity In YearsVarletVarlet VileVassalVengeance ProudVenomous FoolVeriest Varlet That Ever Chewed With A ToothVery Devil IncarnateVery Filthy RogueVery Scurvy FellowVile BenzonianVile- LadyVile OneVile OwlVile PoliticianVile ThiefVile ThingVile WormVillain Of The EarthVillainous Abominable Misleader Of Youth... ViolentViperous TraitorViperous Worm

Virgin-ViolatorVixenWalleyed SlaveWanton And Effeminate BoyWanton CalfWanton GambolWanton Light Of HeartWant-WitWasp- Stung And Impatient FoolWater-RugWayward BoyWeak And Writhled ShrimpWeak OneWeak SlaveWeird WomenWhat A Pestilent Knave Is This SameWhat A SlugWhey- FaceWhiningWhining MammetWhite-Livered And Red-FacedWhite-Livered RunagateWhoreWhoremasterWhoremongerWhoresonWhoreson Beetle-HeadedWhoreson CaterpillarWhoreson Cullionly BarbermongerWhoreson CurWhoreson DevilWhoreson DogWhoreson Indistinguishable CurWhoreson JackanapesWhoreson LoggerheadWhoreson Malt-Horse DrudgeWhoreson ManWhoreson MandrakeWhoreson Obscene Greasy Tallow-CatchWhoreson PeasantWhoreson Senseless VillainWhoreson Smooth-PateWhoreson ZedWicked BawdWicked HannibalWicked VarletWide-Chapp'd RascalWife Of Small WitWild And Wanton Herd

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Wild HeartWildcatWimpledWitchWitheredWit-SnapperWittolWitty FoolWoeful ManWolvish-Ravening LambWoolsackWorm's MeatWorthless PostWrangling KnaveWrangling PedantWrangling PirateWrangling QueenWrangling WomanWretch Whose Natural Gifts Were PoorWretched And Peevish FellowWretched BoyWretched Puling FoolWretched SinnerWretched Slave With A Body Filled And Vacant MindYe Alehouse Painted SignYe Fat-GutsYe White-Limed WallYou BaggageYou Banbury CheeseYou Base Foul Stone Falsely SetYou Canker BlossomYou Common Enemy Of ManYou EquivocatorYou Fool Of FortuneYou Green-Sickness CarrionYou Hag-SeedYou Half A SoulYou Little Jack-A-LentYou Logger-Headed And Unpolished GroomYou Most Coarse Frieze CapacityYou Of Basest FunctionYou Peasant SwainYou PolecatYou Poor WormYou PuppetYou Rabble Of Vile ConfederatesYou Rat-Catcher

You RonyonYou Ruinous ButtYou Three-Inch FoolYou Very Devil IncardinateYou Very Pebble StoneYoung And Sweating DevilYoung BaggageYoung Foolish SaplingYoung Fry Of TreacheryYoung QuatYoung Start- UpYounker

You are fat. By my trowth, thou dost make the millstone seem as a feather what widst thy lard-bloated footfall!

You've got a big mouth. In sooth, thy dank cavernous tooth-hole consumes all truth and reason!

You are ugly. Thy vile canker-blossom'd countenance curdles milk and sours beer.

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