old shakespearean insults all found through here.
you tedious stumbling-blocks! you put sharp weapons in madmen's hands. be thou a prey. be mock'd and wonder'd at.
grammar and language:
how quaint an orator you are. he can speak french; and therefore he is a traitor. it will be prov'd to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun, and a verb, and such abominable words as no christian ear can endure to hear. away with him! away with him! he speaks latin! why should she live to fill the world with words?
vexation almost stops my breath.
changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.
-henry vi, part i
you tedious stumbling-blocks!
could i come near your beauty with my nails i'd set my ten commandments in your face.
your railing is intolerable.
you put sharp weapons in madmen's hands.
art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?
how quaint an orator you are.
he can speak french; and therefore he is a traitor.
it will be prov'd to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun, and a verb, and such abominable words as no christian ear can endure to hear.
away with him! away with him! he speaks latin!
-henry vi, part 2
be thou a prey.
but that i hate thee deadly, a should lament thy miserable state.
i to make thee mad do mock thee thus.
you common people swarm like summer flies.
be mock'd and wonder'd at.
thou misshapen Dick!
why should she live to fill the world with words?
down, down to hell; and say i sent thee thither.
-henry vi, part iii
you tedious stumbling-blocks! you put sharp weapons in madmen's hands. be thou a prey. be mock'd and wonder'd at.
grammar and language:
how quaint an orator you are. he can speak french; and therefore he is a traitor. it will be prov'd to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun, and a verb, and such abominable words as no christian ear can endure to hear. away with him! away with him! he speaks latin! why should she live to fill the world with words?
vexation almost stops my breath.
changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.
-henry vi, part i
you tedious stumbling-blocks!
could i come near your beauty with my nails i'd set my ten commandments in your face.
your railing is intolerable.
you put sharp weapons in madmen's hands.
art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?
how quaint an orator you are.
he can speak french; and therefore he is a traitor.
it will be prov'd to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun, and a verb, and such abominable words as no christian ear can endure to hear.
away with him! away with him! he speaks latin!
-henry vi, part 2
be thou a prey.
but that i hate thee deadly, a should lament thy miserable state.
i to make thee mad do mock thee thus.
you common people swarm like summer flies.
be mock'd and wonder'd at.
thou misshapen Dick!
why should she live to fill the world with words?
down, down to hell; and say i sent thee thither.
-henry vi, part iii