Quotes & Sayings About Greatness By William Shakespeare

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

Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. — William Shakespeare

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

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting: I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more. — William Shakespeare

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

Be not afraid of greatness. — William Shakespeare

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. — William Shakespeare

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

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

That vulture in you to devour so many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclined. — William Shakespeare

So farewell to the little good you bear me
Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! — William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. — William Shakespeare

Some are great, some greatness, and 149 some have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy — William Shakespeare

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

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

My enlightened racial consciousness demands that I reject the so-called greatness of William Faulkner and William Shakespeare. I don't have time for any of that Hamlet jive -- but Marvel superheroes are super cool. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

They met me in the day of success: and I have
learned by the perfectest report, they have more in
them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire
to question them further, they made themselves air,
into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in
the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who
all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,
before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred
me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that
shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver
thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou
mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being
ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it
to thy heart, and farewell. — William Shakespeare

Why, 'Some are born great, some achieve great- ness, and some have greatness thrown upon them. — William Shakespeare

Antony shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
I' th' posture of a whore. — William Shakespeare

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

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another? — William Shakespeare

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