William Shakespeare Quotes About Charity

• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

• To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Men, Charity

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [14]

• 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

  William Shakespeare

  Support, Charity, Helping

  'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 1, l. 108

• Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!

  William Shakespeare

  Wicked, Charity, Beast

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.100, Classic Books Company

• Beauty, wit,
  High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
  Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
  To envious and calumniating time.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Desert

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

• God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

  William Shakespeare

  Charity, Obedience, God Bless

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.426, BookCaps Study Guides

• Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Charity, Reign

  William Shakespeare (2004). “As You Like It”, p.13, Orient Blackswan

• Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Mistake, Office

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [35]

• All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Trials, Charity

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.170, Oxford University Press, USA

• Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers”, p.343

• I am not in the giving vein today.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Veins, Charity

  'Richard III' (1591) act 4, sc. 2, l. 115

• Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

  William Shakespeare

  Charity, Fairness, Holy

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.29

• Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

  William Shakespeare

  Should Have, Heaven, Charity

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.223

• My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Charity, Shame

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.106, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Eye, Charity

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Othello”, p.81, Oxford University Press, USA

• Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Peers, Done

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.786, BookCaps Study Guides

• Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

  William Shakespeare

  Sacrifice, Glasses, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Charity, Curse

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.356, BookCaps Study Guides

• Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Charity

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1519, BookCaps Study Guides

• A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Hands, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, William Hazlitt, Isaac Reed (1851). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.358

• Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Charity

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.277

• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Broken, Giving

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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