William Shakespeare Quotes About Generosity

• With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Generosity

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 1, sc. 1, l. [218]

• To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

  William Shakespeare

  Generosity, Bird, Bullets

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.39, Broadview Press

• Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Generosity, Being Free

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell (1821). “Poems and Plays”, p.311

• O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

  William Shakespeare

  Generosity, Giving, Gone

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Hamlet. Timon of Athens”, p.355

• O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
  A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Generosity, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.69

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