William Shakespeare Quotes About Compassion

• 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]

• Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

  William Shakespeare

  Compassion, Murder, Juliet

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.98

• 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

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