William Shakespeare Quotes About Gentleness

• A light heart lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Funny Love

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 15

• Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Eye

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

• But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1861). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading”, p.185

• Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Force, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1831). “The dramatic works and poems of William Shakespeare, with notes, original and selected, and introductory remarks to each play”, p.245

• Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Spices, Shapes

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.577

• Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Enforcement, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.237

• We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Gentle, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

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