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William Shakespeare Quotes about Honor

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Well, honor is the subject of my story.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.

William Shakespeare
Inspiration, Humor, Honor
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.12

Greatness knows itself.

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

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Observance, Breach
William Shakespeare (1849). “The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare : Carefully Revised, with Introductory and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Author : Prepared Expressly for the Use of Classes, and the Family Reading Circle”, p.12

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

William Shakespeare
Gambling, Honor, Dice
William Shakespeare, Sir John Oldcastle, William Harness, Alexander Anderson (1848). “A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions”, p.147

Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Love Yourself, Honor
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.145

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

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Scar, Self Injury
William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Dream, Honor
William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare
Men, Dear Lord, Honor

If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Names, Honor
William Shakespeare (2003). “Untitled”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?

William Shakespeare
War, Honor, Companionship
William Shakespeare (2007). “Complete Works”

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

William Shakespeare
Offending, Soul, Honor
William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.543

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

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

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

William Shakespeare
Air, Honor, Reckoning
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [131]

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers.

William Shakespeare
Challenges, Honor, Born
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.565

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

William Shakespeare
Honor, Should, Honestly

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.

William Shakespeare
Book, Grace, Honor
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.

William Shakespeare
Imagination, Honor, Toil
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

William Shakespeare
Men, Space, Honor
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.694

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Trying, Done
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.354

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

William Shakespeare
Men, Honor, Desert
William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.64, Hackett Publishing

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

William Shakespeare
Honor, East, West
William Shakespeare (1856). “King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth”, p.29

The due of honor in no point omit.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Dues, No Point
William Shakespeare, George Stevens, Alexander Chalmers (1855). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.765

If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Ifs, Loses

Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

William Shakespeare
Men, Honor, Reign
'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

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