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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

William Shakespeare
Bragging, Ass, Found
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.71

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

William Shakespeare
Perfection, Faces, Strange
William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.131, Oxford University Press, USA

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

William Shakespeare
Life, Rain, Play
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library

There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

William Shakespeare
Winter, Long, Remembrance
William Shakespeare (2009). “The Late Romances”, p.528, Bantam Classics

Death-counterfeiting sleep.

William Shakespeare
Death, Sleep
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1611

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

William Shakespeare
Brutus, Brutes, Treachery

Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare
Music, Pain, Men
1593 Lucentio to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.9-12.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Excess, Gains
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.250, Cengage Learning EMEA

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

William Shakespeare
Art, Boys, Rose
William Shakespeare (1837). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare. Printed from the Text of the Most Renowned Editors, with ... Engravings, Accounts Historical and Explanatory of Each Play, a Copious and Elaborate Glossary, and the Author's Life [by C. Symmons].”, p.381

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

William Shakespeare
Sad, Pain, Heart
William Shakespeare (1858). “Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.648

My wits begin to turn.

William Shakespeare
Madness, Wit, Turns
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

William Shakespeare
Art, Philosophy, History
'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 9

Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?

William Shakespeare
Dream, Sleep, Vision
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.571, Wordsworth Editions

Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

William Shakespeare
Running, Fate, Contrary
1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.

William Shakespeare
Style, Honest, Harsh
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.539, BookCaps Study Guides

Men's vows are women's traitors

William Shakespeare
Love, Women, Vow
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.235

Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday

William Shakespeare
Love, Sunday, Kissing
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 318

The icy precepts of respect.

William Shakespeare
Respect, Icy
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.612

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.

William Shakespeare
Art, Cousin, Sassy
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1829). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left”, p.130

Thou unfit for any place but hell.

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Hell
William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.559

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare
Death, Memorable, Debt
'The Tempest' (1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [143]

Have patience, and endure

William Shakespeare
Creativity, Creative, Endure
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

Memory, the warder of the brain.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Brain
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.75

If you be King, why should not I succeed?

William Shakespeare
Kings, Succeed, Should
William Shakespeare, Edward Hall, Roger Warren (2001). “Rose Rage: Adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays”, p.86, Oberon Books

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.

William Shakespeare
Doctrine, Obedience
William Shakespeare (1994). “The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra”, p.304, Oxford University Press, USA

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