William Shakespeare Quotes About Atheism

• In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

  William Shakespeare

  Errors, Atheism, Ornaments

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

• Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Atheism, Faces

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 5, l. [29]

• His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Atheism, Way

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act1, sc.4, l.11-12.

• I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Atheism, Reign, Strife

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1266, BookCaps Study Guides

• Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

• Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Lying, Heaven

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]

• It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 114

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