All WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes about “Fame”

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
“By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.”
“Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.”
“Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.”
“He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.”
“Too much to know is to know naught but fame.”
“Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?”
“O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.”
“In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.”
“Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.”
“Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.”
“The fewer men, the greater share of honor.”
“I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.”

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