The first ten can be found here.The second ten can be found here.
The third set of barbed taunts to hurl at the unworthy can be found below. Which are the best?
1] Most shallow man! Thou’re worms-meat in respect of a good piece of flesh indeed! [As You Like It ]
2] Away, you bottle-ale rascal, you filthy bung, away! Taken from: Henry IV, part 2
3] Thy lips rot off! Taken from: Timon of Athens
4] Canst thou believe thy living is a life, so stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend. Taken from: Measure for Measure
5] Peace, ye fat guts! Taken from: Henry IV, part I
6] Hence rotten thing! Or I shall shake thy bones out of thy garments. Taken from: Coriolanus
7] [Thou] small grey coated gnat. Taken from: Romeo and Juliet
8] Thou crusty botch of nature! Taken from: Troilus and Cressida
9] Thou art only mark'd for hot vengeance and the rod of heaven. Taken from: Henry IV, part I
10] 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! Taken from: Henry IV, part 1
I must remember the last one the next time an ex contacts me [as they do, when they are drunk!]
ReplyDeleteThough shallow-man. Can I change that to shallow-woman. Bloody loads round here.
ReplyDeleteHave to admit to liking 9 though 3 is certainly short, sharp and effective.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to 10, imagine what he would have said had he had the breath.
ReplyDeleteI like the small grey-coated gnat, for some reason.