William Shakespeare
Insults
The Two Noble Kinsmen
"Thou art baser than a cutpurse."
As You Like It
"I do desire we may be better strangers."
(3.2.248)
The Comedy of Errors
"He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; stigmatical in making, worse in mind."
"Thou whoreson, senseless villain!"
"Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!"
(4.4.100)
Coriolanus
"You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone."
(2.1.36)
"They lie deadly that tell you you have good faces."
(2.1.59)
"You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller."
(2.1.68-9)
"More of your conversation would infect my brain."
(2.1.91)