William Shakespeare Quotes About Giving

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

  William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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• Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Giving, Gone

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  William Shakespeare

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

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• Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

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• Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, News, Tongue

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 85

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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Giving, Support

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• Give me a bowl of wine,
  In this I bury all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Giving, Bacchus

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Art, Love You

  Sonnet 18

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• The object of Art is to give life a shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Giving

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• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Fear, Giving

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• Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Sight, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.244, Classic Books Company

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• Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. 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 E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.531

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• It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Giving, Tongue

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• Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
  But not a sceptre to control the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Power, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.784

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• The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Rain, Heart

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Imagination, Ambitious

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• Heaven give you many, many merry days.

  William Shakespeare

  Anniversary, Giving, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Player, Air

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Cancer, Believe

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hands, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.461

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• Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Crowns, Longing

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [282]

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• Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Men, Venice

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• Give thy thoughts no tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Tongue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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