Cursing with the Master

I was looking for a quote about revenge and women for the new story, and along the way I came across a quote from Hamlet: ‘And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.’ Isn’t that great?

Then, while I was roaming around in a bookstore in Eureka, California, thinking about this quote, I found a pack of playing cards. These cards all contain a quote from one of Shakespeare’s plays (or, as I weirdly suspect, Christopher Marlowe’s plays!)

There was a pack of cards with regular quotes, but the lady behind the counter showed me the curses cards- !! Each card held a curse from one of the plays. I am determined to improve my cursing since reading these. Here are some of my favorites:

1) Tis such fools as you that makes the world full of ill-favored children. (As You Like It)
2) Doth thy other mouth call me? (The Tempest)
3) Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon! (Timon of Athens)
4) Eat my leek. (Henry V)
5) You are one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning (Coriolanus)
6) Villain, I have done thy mother (Titus Andronicus)
7) You show yourself highly fed and lowly taught (All’s Well that Ends Well)
8) You blocks, you stones, you worse than useless things! (Julius Ceaser)
9) To say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be a great part of your title, which is within a very little of nothing (All’s Well That Ends Well)
10) You are weaker than a woman’s tear, tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance, less valiant than the virgin in the night, and skilless as unpractis’s infancy. (Troilus and Cressida)
11) How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after. (Much Ado About Nothing)
12) The gold I give thee will I melt and pour down thy ill-uttering throat (Anthony and Cleopatra)
13) You are an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts (Othello)