20 of some of my favourite, deliciously nasty Shakespearean insults.
Which play are they from?
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Question of
‘Four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one.’
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Twelfth Night
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Question of
‘Men from children nothing differ.’
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Much Ado About Nothing
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King Lear
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Question of
‘First mend my company, take thyself away.’
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Timon of Athens
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Question of
‘I must tell you friendly in your ears, sell when you can, you are not for all markets.’
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As You Like It
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Cymbeline
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Question of
‘A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell.’
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The Tempest
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Comedy of Errors
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Question of
‘There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.’
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Henry IV part I
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Richard II
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Question of
‘I do not like your faults.’
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Julius Caesar
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Coriolanus
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Question of
‘Tis such fools as you that makes the world full of ill-favoured children.’
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As You Like It
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Merry Wives of Windsor
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Question of
‘She’s the kitchen wench and all grease.’
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Comedy of Errors
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Question of
‘Let’s meet as little as we can.’
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As You Like It
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Richard III
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Question of
‘I am sick when I do look on thee.’
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Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Romeo and Juliet
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Question of
‘More of your conversation would infect my brain.’
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Coriolanus
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Hamlet
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Question of
‘Thou art a boil, a plague sore.’
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King Lear
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Henry IV part I
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Question of
‘Thou cream faced loon.’
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Macbeth
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Othello
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Question of
‘Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!’
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Henry IV part 1
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Merry Wives of Windsor
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Question of
‘Scurvy politician.’
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King Lear
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Richard II
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Question of
‘She is spherical, like a globe, I could find out countries in her.’
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Comedy of Errors
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Twelfth Night
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Question of
‘He’s a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker.’
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All’s Well That Ends Well
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Tempest
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Question of
‘Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes.’
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Richard III
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King Lear
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Question of
‘They have a plentiful lack of wit.’
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Hamlet
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Macbeth
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