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Shakespeare – The Insults!

20 of some of my favourite, deliciously nasty Shakespearean insults.
Which play are they from?

  • Question of

    ‘Four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed with one.’

    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Twelfth Night
  • Question of

    ‘Men from children nothing differ.’

    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • King Lear
  • Question of

    ‘First mend my company, take thyself away.’

    • Timon of Athens
    • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Question of

    ‘I must tell you friendly in your ears, sell when you can, you are not for all markets.’

    • As You Like It
    • Cymbeline
  • Question of

    ‘A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell.’

    • The Tempest
    • Comedy of Errors
  • Question of

    ‘There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.’

    • Henry IV part I
    • Richard II
  • Question of

    ‘I do not like your faults.’

    • Julius Caesar
    • Coriolanus
  • Question of

    ‘Tis such fools as you that makes the world full of ill-favoured children.’

    • As You Like It
    • Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Question of

    ‘She’s the kitchen wench and all grease.’

    • Comedy of Errors
    • Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • Question of

    ‘Let’s meet as little as we can.’

    • As You Like It
    • Richard III
  • Question of

    ‘I am sick when I do look on thee.’

    • Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • Romeo and Juliet
  • Question of

    ‘More of your conversation would infect my brain.’

    • Coriolanus
    • Hamlet
  • Question of

    ‘Thou art a boil, a plague sore.’

    • King Lear
    • Henry IV part I
  • Question of

    ‘Thou cream faced loon.’

    • Macbeth
    • Othello
  • Question of

    ‘Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!’

    • Henry IV part 1
    • Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Question of

    ‘Scurvy politician.’

    • King Lear
    • Richard II
  • Question of

    ‘She is spherical, like a globe, I could find out countries in her.’

    • Comedy of Errors
    • Twelfth Night
  • Question of

    ‘He’s a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker.’

    • All’s Well That Ends Well
    • Tempest
  • Question of

    ‘Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes.’

    • Richard III
    • King Lear
  • Question of

    ‘They have a plentiful lack of wit.’

    • Hamlet
    • Macbeth

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