Greatness. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Greatness


Nay, then, farewell! I have touch’d the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey on his Fall.)	1
’Tis, alas, the poor prerogative Of greatness to be wretched, and unpitied— Congreve.—The Mourning Bride, Act I. Scene 1.	2
In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 5. (Malvolio reading a letter.)	3