William Shakespeare Quotes About Power

And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing that makes him honoured or begets him hate; for greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

The king’s name is a tower of strength, which they upon the adverse party want.

The insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.

O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Lions make leopards tame.

Great floods have flown from simple sources; and great seas have dried when miracles have by the greatest been denied.

Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have immortal longings in me.

For men have marble, women waxen, minds, and therefore are they formed as marble will; the weak oppressed, the impression of strange kinds Is formed in them by force, by fraud, or skill. Then call them not the authors of their ill, no more than wax shall be accounted evil wherein is stamped the semblance of a devil.

Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

A substitute shines brightly as a king until a king be by, and then his state empties itself, as doth an inland brook into the main of waters.

A lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing.