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William Shakespeare Quotes about Happiness

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I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Joy, Wish
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 191

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare
Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Positive, Happiness
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Thanksgiving, Gratitude
1592 Henry of Queen Margaret. Henry VI PartTwo, act1, sc.1, l.19-20.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare
Love, Family, Happiness

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Happy, Kings
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.539

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare
Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy
1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Eye, Men
'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Hate, Men
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [78]

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Laughter, Laughing
William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.345

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Travel, Fool
1599-1600 Rosalind to Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.25-7.

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Daughter, Sleep
1598 Leonato, of Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.321-5.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Joy, Weeping
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [27]

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Wise, Eye
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

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