William Shakespeare Quotes About Goodness

• 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

• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

  William Shakespeare

  Risk, Bold Actions, Virtue

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [214]

• Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Filth, Goodness

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 2, l. 38

• To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
  But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorry, True Friend, Real

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.156, Palgrave Macmillan

• So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Goodness, Desdemona

  1603-4 Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.351-3.

• There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Evil, Soul

  1598-9 King Harry. HenryV, act 4, sc.1, l.4-5.

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