May 05, 2007 00:20
"Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch!"
Dromio of Syracuse, obeying orders not to let anyone into the house; The Comedy of Errors 3.1.32
"Away, slight man!"
Brutus to Cassius, Julius Caesar 4.3.37
"How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after."
Beatrice, of Count John; Much Ado about Nothing 2.1.3-4
"A bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate."
Thersites, of himself, to get out of fighting with the bastard son of Priam; The History of Troilus and Cressida 5.7.16-18
"Bless me, what a fry of fornication is at the door!"
The porter guarding the palace gates, outside of which a crowd of commoners has gathered to see the king's new baby daughter, Elizabeth; The Life of King Henry the Eighth 5.4.33-34
"Leave thy vain bibble babble."
The clown to Malvolio, Twelfth Night 4.2.94
"Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning."
Lavinia to her stepmother, Tamora, who is cheating on Lavinia's father; Titus Andronicus 2.3.67
"That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward."
Tranio, of Kate; The Taming of the Shrew 1.1.69
"O flesh, flesh, how art though fishified!"
Mercutio, upon seeing Romeo; Romeo and Juliet 2.4.37-38
"You are a fishmonger"
Hamlet, pretending not to know Polonius; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 2.2.174
"You Banbury cheese!"
Bardolph, of of Falstaff's men, to Slender, one of Anne Page's suitors; The Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1.115
insults,
nina simone,
quotes