“Who knows himself a braggart Let him fear this: for it will come to pass, That every braggart shall be found an ass.” #thebatd_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Ay, so you serve us, Till we serve you: but when you have our roses, You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, And mock us with our bareness.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“O, let me live, And all the secrets of our camp I’ll show, Their force, their purposes: nay, I’ll speak that Which you will wonder at.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“But what linsy-woolsy hast thou to speak to us again?” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“I have yielded: Instruct my daughter how she shall persevér, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Take this purse of gold, And let me buy your friendly help thus far, Which I will over-pay, and pay again, When I have found it.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“he’s a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality worthy of your lordship’s entertainment.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Beware of them, Diana; their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the things they go under” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Welcome shall they be; And all the honours, that can fly from us, Shall on them settle. You know your places well; When better fall, for your avail they fell. To-morrow to the field.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“She is not well, but yet she has her health: she’s very merry, but yet she is not well: but thanks be given, she’s very well, and wants nothing i’the world; but yet she is not well.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars! He wears his honour in a box unseen, That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“I dare not say, I take you; but I give Me and my service, ever whilst I live, Into your guiding power.—This is the man.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Not helping, death’s my fee; But, if I help, what do you promise me?” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour But give me leave to try success, I’d venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace’s cure, By such a day, and hour.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Then, I confess, Here on my knee, before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry, that I may repent.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears; Have fought with equal fortune, and continue A braving war.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“To speak on the part of virginity, is to accuse your mothers; which is infallible disobedience.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power, than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life’s key: be check’d for silence, But never tax’d for speech.” #thebard_problemplays #allswell_2026

“So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down! Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.— On, Myrmidons; and cry you all amain, Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain!” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Pursue we him on knees; for I have dream’d Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“She will sing any man at first sight.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshipers, here’s a letter for thee.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Beat loud the tambourines, let the trumpets blow, That this great soldier may his welcome know!” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood; Thou blow’st for Hector.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Be moderate, be moderate.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“O, Cressida! but that the busy day, Wak’d by the lark, hath rous’d the ribald crows, And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer, I would not from thee.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Our bloods are now in calm; and, so long, health: But when contention and occasion meet, By Jove, I’ll play the hunter for thy life, With all my force, pursuit, and policy.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“My mind is troubled, like a fountain And I myself see not the bottom of it” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for Oblivion, A great-siz’d monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; Which are devour’d as fast as they are made, Forgot as soon as done” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“You have bereft me of all words, lady.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair company! fair desires, in all fair measure, fairly guide them! —especially to you, fair queen! fair thoughts be you fair pillow!” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“I was advertis’d their great general slept, Whilst emulation in the army crept; This, I presume, will wake him.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Cry, Trojans, cry!” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“Two curs shall tame each other; pride alone Must tarre the mastiffs on, as ‘twere a bone.” #thebard_problemplays #troilus_2026

“In the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast, making their way With those of nobler bulk!” #troilus_2026 #thebard_problemplays

Louise Bourgeois: never heard of her before Kudos and coincidentally was an answer to a question on Jeopardy tonight #rachelcusktogether

“Therefore this maxim out of love I teach: Achievement is command; ungained, beseech. Then, though my heart’s content firm love doth bear, Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.” #troilus_2026

“‘T’is just to each of them; he is himself.” #troilus_2026

Went down a Joan Eardley rabbit hole today. #rachelcusktogether

“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.” #troilus_2026

“So, bring us to our palace; where we’ll show What’s yet behind, that’s meet you all should know.” #TheBard_ProblemPlays

Anybody watching? Entertaining!

“Show your knave’s visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour. Will’t not off?” #TheBard_ProblemPlays

“That’s the way; for women are light at midnight.” #TheBard_ProblemPlays

“Justice, O royal Duke! Vail your regard Upon a wronged—I would fain have said a maid. O worthy prince, dishonor not your eye By throwing it on any other object Till you have heard me in my true complaint, And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!” #TheBard_ProblemPlays

“Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such vantage on the duke, He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded: The generous and gravest citizens Have hent the gates, and very near upon The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!” #TheBard_ProblemPlays

“Unhappy Claudio! Wretched Isabel! Injurious world! Most damned Angelo!” #TheBard_ProblemPlays

“A pox o’ your throats! Who makes that noise there? What are you?” #TheBard_ProblemPlays