Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things, Though great ones are their object.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be not afraid of greatness. Some people are born great, some achieve it, others have it thrust upon them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; And will as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share
“Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.' And yet, I warrant, it had upon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. — William Shakespeare Copy Share
