I will discharge it, in either your straw colour beard, your orange tawny beard, your purple in grain beard, or your French-crown coloured beard, your perfect yellow.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 2. A puffed-up Bottom sounds ridiculous and self-important as he discusses playing Pyramus and what sort of beard would be right for the character. He seems to think that he is God’s gift to the theater and the greatest actor alive.