William Shakespeare Quotes About Crime

• I am thy father's spirit;
  Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night
  And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,
  Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
  Are burnt and purg'd away.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Night, Fire

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.215

• Tremble, thou wretch,
  That hast within thee undivulged crimes
  Unwhipped of justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Crime, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, with notes, adapted for schools and for private study by J. Hunter”, p.72

• In persons grafted in a serious trust,
  Negligence is a crime.

  William Shakespeare

  Serious, Crime, Negligence

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.306

• Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
  And what strength I have's mine own,
  Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
  Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
  Since I have my dukedom got
  And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell
  In this bare island by your spell;
  I must be here confined by you,
  But release me from my bands
  With the help of your good hands:
  Gentle breath of yours my sails
  Must fill, or else my project fails,
  Which was to please: now I want
  Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
  And my ending is despair,
  Unless I be relieved by prayer,
  Which pierces so, that it assaults
  Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
  As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
  Let your indulgence set me free.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Prayer, Hands

  "Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest".

• He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Crime, Stolen, Crime And Criminals

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.622

• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Yarn, Despair

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

• As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

  William Shakespeare

  Tempest, Crime, Pardon

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.18

• Between the acting of a dreadful thing
  And the first motion, all the interim is
  Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Acting, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

• If little faults proceeding on distemper
  Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
  When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
  Appear before us?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Drinking, Eye

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

• Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.

  William Shakespeare

  Guilty, Glory, Crime

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1453, BookCaps Study Guides

• Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Men, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.178

• If yon bethink yourself of any crime
  Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace,
  Solicit for it straight.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heaven, Grace

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Othello”, p.126, Oxford University Press, USA

• Foul deeds will rise,
  Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Earth

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 256

• The king-becoming graces,
  As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
  Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
  I have no relish of them, but abound
  In the division of each several crime,
  Acting in many ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Kings, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2002). “Macbeth”, p.186, Barron's Educational Series

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