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Humility: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Often to our comfort shall we find The sharded beetle in a safer hold Than is the full-wing'd eagle.— Cym. iii. 3.

I have sounded the very base string of humility.— H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 4

I heard him swear, Were he to stand for consul, never would he Appear i' the market-place, nor on him put The napless vesture of humility.— C. ii. 1

Wilt thou, pupil-like, Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod, And fawn on rage with base humility?— R. II. v. 1.

O happy 'vantage of a kneeling knee.— R. II. v. 3