Here are a list of Shakespearean insults that were used at the time. If you were to say one of the comments below in that day and age, one would take serious offense.

• You puppet!
• You cold porridge!
• You living dead man!
• You untutored churl!
• You painted Maypole!
• You cream-faced loon!
• You worshiper of idiots!
• You dwarf!
• You minimus!
• You bloody, bawdy villain!
• You injurious, tedious wasp!
• You base, fawning spaniel!
• You infectious pestilence!
• You botcher's apprentice!
• You ugly, venomous toad!
• You base, ignoble wretch!
• You old, withered crab tree!
• You lunatic, lean-witted fool!
• You filching, pilfering snatcher!
• You tiresome, wrangling pedant!
• You impudent, tattered prodigal!
• You whoreson, clap-eared knave!
• You dull and muddy mettled rascal!
• You gross lout!
• You mindless slave!
• You base, vile thing!
• You petty scrap!
• You dull, unfeeling barren ignorance!
• You rank weed, ready to be rooted out!
• You irksome, brawling, scolding pestilence!
• You brawling, blasphemous, uncharitable dog!
• You ignorant, long-tongued, babbling gossip!
• You smiling, smooth detested pestilence!
• You mangled work of nature!
• You scurvy knave!
• You caterpillar of the commonwealth!
• You politician!
• You juggler!
• You canker-blossom!
• You thief of love!
• You decrepet wrangling miser!
• You base ignoble wretch!
• You remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

(posted by me on phuriku's behalf)

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I love how almost half of them are from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
There was a lot of anger in that play...

You filching, pilfering snatcher!
Personal favorite.

• Your wit will not out as soon as another man's will. It is wedged deep within a block head.
• Your peevish chastity is not worth a breakfast in the bravest countries.
• At his best, he is little worse than a man. At his worst, he is little better than a beast.

Some of my favs=) I have a book of them. It's very small, but quite handy.

How little things change!

You forgot "thou crusty batch of nature"

Haha I love this.

I love Shakespearean Insults about as much as I love Shakespearean pick-up lines and come-ons! We should post some of them!

Some of the best insults are the ones taken out of context:

• Away, you three-inch fool!

I personally like " you ugly, venomous toad!"