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Railing: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Did you ever hear such railing?— 4. F. iv. 3.

Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one, that is neither known of thee, nor knows thee.— K. L. ii. 2.

Why, what an ass am I!-This is most brave; That I, the son of a dear father, murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion!— H. ii. 2.

I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness; but, I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration, than thou learn a prayer without book.— T. C. ii. 1.

Rails on our little state of war Bold as an oracle: and sets Thersites, (A slave, whose gall coins slander like a mint,) To match us in comparisons with dirt.— T. C. i. 3.

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove. T.N.i.