William Shakespeare Quotes About Kindness

• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Encouraging, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208

• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Grief, Loss

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

• I must be cruel, only to be kind.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Memorable, Be Kind

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 178

• 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

• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Kindness, Wife

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Love You, Winning

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The plays of William Shakespeare in eight volumes: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

• Beauty lives with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Kindness, Beauty Of Life

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Play, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

• Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Tyrants, Courtesy

• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Kindness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

• If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
  Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness;
  Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;
  Muffle your false love with some show of blindness;
  Let not my sister read it in your eye;
  Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;
  Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
  Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;
  Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;
  Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;
  Be secret-false.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kindness, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic”, p.287

• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.193

• He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Valor

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

• Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Kindness, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

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