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William Shakespeare Quotes about Greatness

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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Thinking, Coke

Greatness knows itself.

William Shakespeare
Power, Greatness, Honor
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. 74

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Greatness, Men
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [140]

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

William Shakespeare
Kings, War, Greatness
William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

Be not afraid of greatness.

William Shakespeare
Life, Greatness, Not Afraid
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158]

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Greatness, Men
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.123

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Intellectual, Achieve

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Sea, Vapour
William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

William Shakespeare
Strong, Kings, Greatness
William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Greatness, Done
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Greatness, Inward
'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 16

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

William Shakespeare
Power, Greatness, Abuse
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Glory, Touched
1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

William Shakespeare
Farewell, Greatness, Long
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Politics
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [257]

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Haste, Glory
1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

William Shakespeare
Greatness, Blast, Shakes
1592-3 Margaret. Richard III, act1, sc.3, l.257-8.

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