William Shakespeare Quotes About Wealth

• So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Excess, Wealth

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.795

• No profit grows where no pleasure is taken.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Taken, Wealth

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39

• For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kings, Love You

  Sonnet 29

• 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

• All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

  William Shakespeare

  Dirty, Gold, Worship

• Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Skills, Joy

  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.75

• Were it good
  To set the exact wealth of all our states
  All at one cast? to set so rich a main
  On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
  It were not good.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Nice, Gambling

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Henry IV”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Three, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.100

• Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Men, Substance

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.57

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