William Shakespeare Quotes About Repentance

• A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Suffering, Shame

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.250

• Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Fall, Scotch

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

• O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Struggle, Angel

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

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