William Shakespeare Quotes About Equality

• The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Equality

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

• Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Equality, Dust

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 4, sc. 2, l. 246

• Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

  William Shakespeare

  Equality, Two, Factions

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus”, p.88

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