If you think you may have heard some good verbal abuse or takedowns recently (relating to certain politicians) it may be good to brush up on your Shakespeare.
For instance how about this one from King Lear (Act II Scene II):-
Earl of Kent. Fellow I know thee.
Oswald.What dost thou know me for?
Earl of 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-taking knave, a whoreson, glass gazing, super serviceable, finical rogue; one trunk inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in a way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.
Oswald.Why, what a monstrous fellow are thou, thus to rail on one that is neither known to thee or knows thee.
Earl of Kent. What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw you rogue: for though it be night, yet the moon shines; I’ll make a sop o’ the moonshine of you: draw you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw. (Drawing his sword).
Politicians take note!!
A masterful use of English and without vulgarity or a four-letter “f” word anywhere.
NOTE: Definition of a pandar = a pimp.
Definition of cullionly = mean or base.
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