Shakespeare Insults
So you think you know a foul word or two? Shakespeare’s insults, put downs and cussing were second to none, and with his insults Shakespeare was most certainly a master of his trade! Read our selection of Shakespearean insults below:
Shakespeare Insult 1 – The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Thou subtle, perjur’d, false, disloyal man!
Shakespeare Insult 2 – As You Like It
Thou art like a toad; ugly and venemous.
Shakespeare Insult 3 – The Tempest
Thine forward voice, now, is to speak well of thine friend; thine backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
Shakespeare Insult 4 – Measure For Measure
Thou art a flesh-monger, a fool and a coward.
Shakespeare Insult 5 – 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.
Shakespeare Insult 6 – Cymbeline
Thy tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
Shakespeare Insult 7 – Henry IV Part 2
You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!
Shakespeare Insult 8 – All’s Well That Ends Well
Methink’st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.
Shakespeare Insult 9 – The Winter’s Tale
My wife’s a hobby horse!
Shakespeare Insult 10 – Troilus and Cressida
Thou art as loathsome as a toad.
Shakespeare Insult 11 – Macbeth
Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver’d boy.
Shakespeare Insult 12 – Henry IV Part 1
Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!
Shakespeare Insult 13 – 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?
Shakespeare Insult 14 – 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!
Shakespeare Insult 15 – Henry IV Part 1
Peace, ye fat guts!
Shakespeare Insult 16 – Henry V
There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
Shakespeare Insult 17 – Richard III
Thou poisonous bunch-back’d toad!
Shakespeare Insult 18 – Richard III
Thou art unfit for any place but hell.
Shakespeare Insult 19 – Hamlet
Thou are pigeon-liver’d and lack gall.
Shakespeare Insult 20 – All’s Well That Ends Well
Your virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese.
Shakespeare Insult 21 – Henry V
Thine face is not worth sunburning.
Shakespeare Insult 22 – As You Like It
Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.
Shakespeare Insult 23 – Henry IV Part 1
You are as a candle, the better burnt out.
Shakespeare Insult 24 – Hamlet
If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.
Shakespeare Insult 25 – Measure For Measure
Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
Shakespeare Insult 26 – 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.
Shakespeare Insult 27 – All’s Well That Ends Well
Methink’st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.
Shakespeare Insult 28 – Henry IV Part 1
Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!
Shakespeare Insult 29 – 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?
Shakespeare Insult 30 – 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!
Read enough Shakesperean insults? Check out our lists of words and phrases that Shakespeare invented & some interesting facts about Shakespeare.
5 Responses to Shakespeare Insults
buddy! I’m going to use these dude
I know one! Thy venom outweighs all the worms of nile
“Come you froward and unable worms!” – from The Taming of the Shrew
i also noe one!!!
Thou unmuzzled beetle-headed pignut. LOL pignut
if you want something ugly look in the mirror