William Shakespeare Quotes About God

• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Fake People, Being Yourself

  William Shakespeare, Nick De Somogyi (2001). “Hamlet: The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke : the First Folio of 1623 and a Parallel Modern Edition”, p.106, Nick Hern Books

• Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Appreciation, Night

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The plays of Shakspere, carefully revised [by J.O.] with a selection of engr. on wood from designs by K. Meadows”, p.1146

• A politician... one that would circumvent God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Politics, Politician

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [84]

• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.521

• The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, God, Meaningful

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Double Falsehood: Third Series”, p.118, A&C Black

• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Sports, Religious

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. 36

• Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Idols, Mad

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.291

• However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Men, Wings

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.365

• God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
  Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Names, Conquer

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.56, BookCaps Study Guides

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