William Shakespeare Quotes About Fairness

• Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Happy Hour, Hours

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.197

• But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
  Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
  Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
  And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Boys, Rose

  William Shakespeare (1837). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare. Printed from the Text of the Most Renowned Editors, with ... Engravings, Accounts Historical and Explanatory of Each Play, a Copious and Elaborate Glossary, and the Author's Life [by C. Symmons].”, p.381

• To this urn let those repair
  That are either true or fair;
  For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Bird, Fairness

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.942

• Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Morning, Fairness

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.195, BookCaps Study Guides

• Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Fairness, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1798). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition...”, p.389

• Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Fairness, Good Dog

  William Shakespeare, Henry NEELE (1824). “Shakespeare's Plays, with notes by H. Neele. With engraved plates”

• Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Hair, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.56

• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

• 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

• 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

• Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Kind, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.72

• Rest you fair, good signior;
  Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mouths, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.170

• "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,
  "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;
  And in this change is my invention spent,
  Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Fairness, Kind

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

• 'Tis not to make me jealous
  To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
  Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
  Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Play, Wife

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, ROMEO and JULIET. HAMLET, PRINCE of DENMARK. OTHELLO, the MOOR of VENICE. VOLUME the TENTH”, p.361

• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Hypocrite, Rose, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Is she kind as she is fair?

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Kind, Fairs

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

• Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Fairness, Holy

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

• Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Praying, Speak

  William Shakespeare (1791). “THE PLAYS OF William Shakspeare, COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.: CONTAINING KING JOHN, RICHRARD II. HENRY IV. PART I. HENRY IV. PART II. HENRY V. THE ENGRAVINGS TO THIS VOLUME ARE, TWO SCENES TO EACH PLAY, AND TWO ALLEGORIES. ALLEGORIES. 1. YOUTH ATTENDING THE DICTATES OF SHAKSPEARE. 2. THE TRAGIC AND COMIC MUSE ADORNING THE STATUE OD SHAKSPEARE”

• Fair Katherine, and most fair,
  Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms
  Such as will enter at a lady's ear,
  And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Soldier, Ears

  William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.54, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
  You may partake of any thing we say:
  We speak no treason, man; we say the King
  Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
  Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
  We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
  A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
  And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Queens, Kings

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

• Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
  To make my end too sudden.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Fairness, Ends

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1855). “The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author”, p.371

• Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
  Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
  A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

  William Shakespeare

  Sheep, Tree, Olives

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.173

• Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
  And young affection gapes to be his heir;
  That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
  With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Desire, Heirs

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.258

• 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Art, Heaven

  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.428

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