All WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes about “Charity”

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”
“Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!”
“Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.”
“Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.”
“My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!”
“She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.”
“Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.”
“Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.”
“God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!”
“Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.”
“Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.”
“All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.”
“Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.”
“I am not in the giving vein today.”
“Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?”
“A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.”
“Gently to hear, kindly to judge.”

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