“Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
“O braggart vile and damned furious wight!”
Source: King Henry V: Third Series
“Avaunt, you cullions!”
Source: King Henry V: Third Series
“Such antics do not amount to a man.”
Source: King Henry V
“He is white-livered and red-faced.”
Source: Henry V
“They were devils incarnate.”
“They are hare-brain'd slaves.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
To fill the world with vicious qualities.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
“I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
And with the other fling it at thy face.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
“Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
To signify thou camest to bite the world.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions
“I can see his pride
Peep through each part of him.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“No man's pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index
“You are strangely troublesome.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!”
“O you beast!
I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,
That you shall think the devil is come from hell.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“You are a tedious fool.”
Source: Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli
“O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
“Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.”
“A very scurvy fellow.”
Source: Measure for Measure
“Thou art a Castilian King urinal!”
Source: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæ
“Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.”
Source: The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes, by A. Chalmers
“I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.”
“My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left
“Men from children nothing differ.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.”
Source: Othello, the Moor of Venice, tragedy ... Marked with the variations in the Manager's book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane
“Thy food is such
As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems
“Thou lump of foul deformity!”
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard III
“Thou unfit for any place but hell.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard III
“You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
monster!”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions
“Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition
“I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than
thou learn a prayer without book.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“A fusty nut with no kernel.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.”
“You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Timon of Athens
“If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.”
“If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays
“And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.”
Source: Shakespeare's HAMLET eBook
“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed”
Source: The Sonnets
“A king of infinite space”
“Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile”
Source: Plays of William Shakespeare
“Sweet are the uses of adversity”
“The man that hath no music in himself”
“The patient must minister to himself”
“There is a tide in the affairs of men”
“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”