William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

• O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  1592 Henry of Queen Margaret. Henry VI PartTwo, act1, sc.1, l.19-20.

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

• I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy, Wish

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 191

• My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Happy, Kings

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.539

• I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Hate, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [78]

• 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]

• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

• I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Travel, Fool

  1599-1600 Rosalind to Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.25-7.

• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Family, Happiness

• There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Daughter, Sleep

  1598 Leonato, of Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.321-5.

• Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.345

• How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy, Weeping

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [27]

• All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Wise, Eye

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

• Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

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