William Shakespeare Quotes About Honor

• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Perseverance, Stay Strong

  William Shakespeare (1871). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice”, p.623

• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

• My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Dear Lord, Honor

• Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
  But not a sceptre to control the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Power, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.784

• If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Integrity, Offending

  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

• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Scar, Self Injury

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

• 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 the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Intelligent, Clouds

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3514, BookCaps Study Guides

• Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
  Long continuance, and increasing,
  Hourly joys be still upon you!

  William Shakespeare

  Anniversary, Wedding, Blessing

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare: Poems”, p.194, Everyman's Library

• Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, East, West

  William Shakespeare (1856). “King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth”, p.29

• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Character, Men

  William Shakespeare (1855). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.409

• Well, honor is the subject of my story.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiration, Humor, Honor

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.12

• Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Dream, Honor

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Honor, Reckoning

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [131]

• 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

• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fighting, Warrior

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

• Milk-livered man,
  That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
  Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
  Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
  Fools do those villains pity who are punished
  Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
  France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
  With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
  Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
  'Alack, why does he so?']

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Men

• Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor.

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Love Yourself, Honor

  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.145

• Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Should, Honestly

• If is a custom,
  More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Honor, Observance, Breach

  William Shakespeare (1849). “The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare : Carefully Revised, with Introductory and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Author : Prepared Expressly for the Use of Classes, and the Family Reading Circle”, p.12

• What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Space, Honor

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.694

• It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

  William Shakespeare

  Gambling, Honor, Dice

  William Shakespeare, Sir John Oldcastle, William Harness, Alexander Anderson (1848). “A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions”, p.147

• Now all the youth of England are on fire,
  And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;
  Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought
  Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, War, Men

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

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