Sunday, February 13, 2011

The best insult in all of literature.

Oswald.  "What dost thou know me for?"

Kent.  "A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats;
    a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
    hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave;
    a lily-livered, action-talking, whoreson, glass-gazing,
    superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave;
    one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and
    art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward.
    pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom
    I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least
    syllable of thy addition."

- King Lear

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