William Shakespeare Quotes About Sin

• Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 92

• If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Integrity, Offending

  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

• By that sin fell the angels.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Sin

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Nurse

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Sin

  1603 Escalus. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.1, l.38.

• Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sex, Way

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 124

• Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Clothes, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Great Comedies and Tragedies”, p.795, Wordsworth Editions

• Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Love Is, Sin

  William Shakespeare (1804). “Poems by William Shakespeare”, p.226

• Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Confidence, Loving Life

  1598-9 Dauphin, to King Charles. HenryV, act 2, sc.4, l.73-4.

• I am a man more sinned against than sinning

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sin

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [57]

• Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sin, Mercy

  'Timon Of Athens' act 3, sc. 5, l. 3

• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Measure For Measure, Tempted

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

• You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Bears, Looks

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, Richard Farmer (1799). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Timon of Athens”

• Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Suicidal

  1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc.16, l.82-4.

• Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Scum, Way

  1597-8 King Henry to Harry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 4, sc.3, l.254-5.

• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Violet

  William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

  William Shakespeare

  Sight, Doe, Wrens

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [110]

• They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Blow, Glowing

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Desire, Sin, Covetousness

  William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.166

• LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Husband, Niece

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.856, BookBaby

• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Temptation, Sin

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 180

• Give me my sin again.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Sin, Give Me

  William Shakespeare (1853). “Romeo and Juliet ...”, p.46

• Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lips

  William Shakespeare (2017). “Romeo and Juliet (English Russian illustrated edition): Ромео и Джульетта (английская русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.67, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Greatness

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

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