William Shakespeare Quotes about Generosity

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O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

Generosity, Giving, Gone

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “Hamlet. Timon of Athens”, p.355

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

William Shakespeare

Generosity, Bird, Bullets

William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.39, Broadview Press

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

William Shakespeare

Hands, Generosity, Giving

William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.69

With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Moon, Generosity

'Coriolanus' (1608) act 1, sc. 1, l. [218]