Shakespearean insults
- “You Banbury cheese!” The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, scene 1
- “Base dunghill villain and mechanical” Henry VI - Part Two, Act 1, Scene 3
- “The bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag guts", Henry IV Part 1, Act 2 sc 4
- “Thou lily-liver’d boy.” Macbeth, Act 5, scene 3
- “Why, you whoreson round man” Henry IV, Act 2, Scene 4
- “Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat”, Henry V, Act 4, scene 4
- “Villain, I have done thy mother” Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 2
- “The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got’st thou that goose look?” Macbeth Act 5 Sc 3
- “…nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.” King Lear, Act 2, Scene 2.
- “A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 3, Scene 6
- “You hard hearts; you cruel men of Rome.” Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 1