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Braggarts: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Jack, That thinks with oaths to face the matter out. T. S. ii.— T. S. ii. 1.

I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; 1 Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go anticly, and show an outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies if they durst; And this is all.— M. A. V. 1

He speaks plain cannon, fire, and smoke, and bounce; He gives the bastinado with his tongue; Our ears are cudgell'd; not a word of his, But buffets better than a fist of France; Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words. K. J. ii. 2. Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass.— A. W. iv. 3

What cracker is this same, which deafs our ears— K. J. ii. 1

With this abundance of superfluous breath? Here's a large mouth, indeed, That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks and seas; Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs.— K. J. ii. 2

What art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigger; for I wear not My dagger in my mouth.— Cym. iv. 2