William Shakespeare Quotes About Good Deeds

• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

• Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Talking, Deeds And Words, Kind

• People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Evil, Water

• Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
  Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd
  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Monsters

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

• If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Deeds, Repent

  'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 5, sc. 3, l. [189]

• One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Waiting, Dying

  1609 Hermione. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.94-5.

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