William Shakespeare Quotes About Dignity

• I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Memorable, Dignity

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 380

• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Disease And Death, Political

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90

• The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die'
  But if that flow'r with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Weed, Sweet

  Sonnet 94

• Glory is like a circle in the water

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Eye, Wings

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

• What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Dignity, Great Ones

• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dignity, Cupid

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226

• This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Teaching, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

• Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Blood, Hands

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.5

• O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

  William Shakespeare

  Smell, Heaven, Dignity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 36

• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

• 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

• Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity

  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

• It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Dignity, Virtue

  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

• Value dwells not in particular will;
  It holds his estimate and dignity
  As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
  As in the prizer.

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity, Wells, Brave New World Character

  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

• Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

  William Shakespeare

  Office, Degrees, Merit

  1596-7 Aragon.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.40-2.

• Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Dignity, Fingers

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

  William Shakespeare

  Want, Dignity, Sovereignty

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.214, Cengage Learning EMEA

• But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

  William Shakespeare

  Dust, Clay, Dignity

  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

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