William Shakespeare Quotes About Fame

• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

• By being seldom seen, I could not stir
  But like a comet I was wondered at.

  William Shakespeare

  Wonder, Fame, Comets

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

• I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Beer, Safety

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

• Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fame, Conquest

  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.126

• Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

  William Shakespeare

  Circles, Water, Glory

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

• Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

  William Shakespeare

  Haste, Fame

• He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

  William Shakespeare

  Causes, Reputation, Fame

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.104

• Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Too Much, Fame

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

• O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Names, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.772

• In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Revenge, Names

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.212, Oxford University Press, USA

• I say, without characters, fame lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Long, Long Life

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1808). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

• Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Fall, Greek

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.745, Wordsworth Editions

• Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Common, Fame

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. 37

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

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Reign

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

• The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Fame

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 20

• 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

• 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

• Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
  And every godfather can give a name.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Names, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.345

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