Shakespeare's Greatest Insults

Shakespeare's insults are legendary. Here are a few of my favourites:

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

Coriolanus (2.1.91)

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

Hamlet (2.2.198)

'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-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 bowcase; you vile standing-tuck! 

1 Henry IV (2.4.227-9)

Thy food is such

As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

Pericles (4.6.156)

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

Troilus and Cressida (2.1.41)

Here's one for writers:

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.

1 Henry IV (1.2.75)

Ooh. Burn!

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Source:
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/quotes/shakespeareinsults.html