William Shakespeare Quotes About Mankind

• The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570

• We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Flesh

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.407, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Animal

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

• O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

  William Shakespeare

  Brave New World, People, Wonder

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 182

• What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Enemy, Devil

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [109]

• I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Hate, Wish

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2478, Oxford University Press

• Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Despair, Should

  1609 Leontes. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.199-201.

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