
Thou sodden-witted lord; thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
Thersites to Ajax in “Troilus and Cressida”
Away, you three-inch fool!
Curtis to Grumio in “The Taming of the Shrew”
I do desire we may be better strangers.
Orlando to Jaques in “As You Like It”
There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
Falstaff to Mistress Quickly in “Henry IV”
Villain, I have done thy mother.
Aaron to Chiron and Demetrius in “Titus Andronicus”
Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!
Timon to Apemantus in “Timon of Athens”
Either thou art most ignorant by age, or thou wert born a fool.
Leontes to Antigonus in “The Winter’s Tale”
More of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.
Menenius to Brutus and Sicinius in “Coriolanus”
What, you are as a candle, the better part burnt out.
Chief Justice to Falstaff in “Henry IV”
He’s a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality.
A French nobleman about Parolles in “All’s Well That Ends Well”
I am sick when I do look on thee.
Demetrius to Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”