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Greatness: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Some are born great:-some achieve greatness;-some have greatness thrust upon them.— T. N. iii. 4.

Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument; But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honour's at the stake.— H. iv. 4.

Would you praise Cæsar, say, -Cæsar; go no further.— A.C. iii. 2.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about, To find ourselves dishonourable graves.— J.C. i. 2.

This man Is now become a god; and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, If Cæsar carelessly but nod at him.— J.C. i. 2.

The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power.— J. C. ii. 1.

Great men may jest with saints: 'tis wit in them: But, in the less, foul profanation. That, in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.— M. M. ii. 2.