10 profound William Shakespeare insults every correct Nigerian should use

It's almost 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare.

The English language owes a great debt to him for inventing over 1700 of our common words.

William Shakespeare is also known for enriching English Literature with his fantastic plays and sonnets, which are still relevant and poignant today.

However, he also contributed something else to the world - he coined and used some absolutely excellent insults throughout his work.

What is throwing shade or giving worthy clapbacks without mentioning Shakespeare huh?

Here are 10 of the most fantastic of the bard's best beat-downs that you can use in Lagos traffic or shout in queues when people are messing up.

Let us know your favourite in the comments below:

1. "You have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.  I am sick when I do look on thee"

Sounds a bit more venomous than "you're so ugly, you make me sick".

2."If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them"

All modern feminists who are concerned about the wrong things can relate to this.

3.

It means you are basically just senseless.

You can opt for this instead of saying 'I would slap you'

5. "You starvelling, you eel-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 bow-case, you vile standing tuck!"

Oh God! This is too much.

This means someone is terribly dressed, and they are also an awful person.

7. "A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality."

This is perfect for Nigerian politicians and Nigerian police.

8. "Thou art unfit for any place but hell."

You are just a bad person.

9. "Thou art like a toad; ugly and venomous."

For people who have beautiful face but really ugly character.

10."Thou art a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, 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, pandar, and the son and heir of a mungril bitch."

This is too deep. Thank you Shakespeare for teaching and grooming us in the act of proper cursing.

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