William Shakespeare Quotes about Dignity
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 380
William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.214, Cengage Learning EMEA
William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.492
But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.
William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Gerard Vandergucht, Hubert François Gravelot (1762). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.268
William Shakespeare (1861). “Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter”, p.70
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing
William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.311
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 36
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226
