William Shakespeare Quotes About Values

• Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Loving Someone, Waste

• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

  William Shakespeare

  Risk, Bold Actions, Virtue

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [214]

• For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Virtue, Lost

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1486, Oxford University Press

• I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

  William Shakespeare

  Swans, Rose, Together

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1704, Oxford University Press

• All that glitters is not gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Empty Vessels, Gold, Glitter

  David Schajer, William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's Premiere of Richard III”, p.75, David Schajer

• Value dwells not in particular will;
  It holds his estimate and dignity
  As well wherein 'tis precious of itself
  As in the prizer.

  William Shakespeare

  Dignity, Wells, Brave New World Character

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.311

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