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William Shakespeare Quotes about Fame

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By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

William Shakespeare
Wonder, Fame, Comets
William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.

William Shakespeare
Men, Honor, Fame
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare
Men, Honor, Fame
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 20

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

William Shakespeare
Death, Fame, Conquest
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.126

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

William Shakespeare
Art, Common, Fame
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. 37

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

William Shakespeare
Knowledge, Too Much, Fame
William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

William Shakespeare
Haste, Fame

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

William Shakespeare
Causes, Reputation, Fame
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.104

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