William Shakespeare Quotes About Dignity

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  • Let none presume To wear an undeserved 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.

    Courage  
    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
  • 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, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Full fathom five thy father lies

    'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394
  • Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

    Love  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226
  • Glory is like a circle in the water

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

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.64, Hackett Publishing
  • 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, 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
  • Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90
  • But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

    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
  • 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.

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

    Sonnet 94
  • What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

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

    Peace  
    'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 380
  • 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, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.214, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.

    William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 36
  • 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 (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128
  • 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!

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