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William Shakespeare Quotes about Kindness

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Beauty lives with kindness.

Beauty lives with kindness.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Kindness, Beauty Of Life
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare
Positive, Kindness, Naughty
William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Love You, Winning
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The plays of William Shakespeare in eight volumes: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Kindness, Wife
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Grief, Loss
'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare
Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness
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.193

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Play, Lady Macbeth
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Memorable, Be Kind
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 178

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

William Shakespeare
Art, Nature, Kindness
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Valor
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

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

William Shakespeare
Kindness, Tyrants, Courtesy

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

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Kindness, Virtue
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

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