Honor Quotes by William Shakespeare

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

— William Shakespeare

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

— William Shakespeare

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

— William Shakespeare

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

— William Shakespeare

Greatness knows itself.

— William Shakespeare

The due of honor in no point omit.

— William Shakespeare

Well, honor is the subject of my story.

— William Shakespeare

If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less…

— William Shakespeare

That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our…

— William Shakespeare

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's…

— William Shakespeare

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in…

— William Shakespeare

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate…

— William Shakespeare

“What is in that word "honor"? What is that "honor"? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday.…

— William Shakespeare

If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how…

— William Shakespeare

My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted…

— William Shakespeare

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should…

— William Shakespeare

If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look…

— William Shakespeare

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if…

— William Shakespeare

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace…

— William Shakespeare

Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine…

— William Shakespeare

“My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted…

— William Shakespeare

Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour…

— William Shakespeare

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege,…

— William Shakespeare

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel…

— William Shakespeare