William Shakespeare Quotes About Glory

• Like madness, is the glory of this life.

  William Shakespeare

  Madness, Glory

  "The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes".

• Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Stars, Pain

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

• 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

• Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Love You, Clouds

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 3, l. 84

• 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

• Thyself and thy belongings
  Are not thine own so proper, as to waste
  Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
  Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
  Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
  Did not go forth of us 't were all alike
  As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
  But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends
  The smallest scruple of her excellence,
  But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
  Herself the glory of a creditor -
  Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Issues, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure”, p.383

• Time's glory is to command contending kings,
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Truth

• 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

• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Vanity, Glasses

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1855). “Shakspere's Werke: Romeo and Juliet. Cymbeline. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”

• Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Issues, Excellence, Use

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides

• I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Glory, Touched

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

• 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

  Greatness, Haste, Glory

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

• You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, May, Glory

  "The Life and Death of King Richard the Second".

• I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Thinking, Two

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.446, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

  William Shakespeare

  Lasts, Glory, Rejoice

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (1999). “King Richard III”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

• I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Pride, Boys

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

• Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Skills, Joy

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.75

• Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live
  But in a dream of friendship,
  To have his pomp and all what state compounds
  But only painted, like his varnished friends?

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Would Be, Glory

  William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1871). “The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, with Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet by H.N. Hudson”, p.84

• Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

  William Shakespeare

  Guilty, Glory, Crime

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

• Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

  William Shakespeare

  Glory

• 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

  Greatness, Sea, Vapour

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

• So doth the greater glory dim the less:
  A substitute shines brightly as a king
  Until a king be by.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Light, Shining

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90

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