William Shakespeare Quotes About Mercy
-
There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
→ -
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
→ -
The quality of mercy is not strained
→ -
We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
→ -
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
→ -
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
→ -
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.
→ -
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
→ -
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
→ -
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.
→ -
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
→ -
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
→ -
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
→ -
The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them, but abound In the division of each several crime, Acting in many ways.
→ -
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
→ -
At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
→ -
Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.
→ -
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
→ -
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
→
Related Authors
-
Dante Alighieri Poet -
Elizabeth I Queen of England -
Moliere Playwright -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist -
Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Christopher Marlowe Dramatist -
William Wordsworth Poet -
Ben Jonson Playwright -
John Milton Poet -
Miguel de Cervantes Novelist -
Niccolo Machiavelli Historian -
Oscar Wilde Writer -
Geoffrey Chaucer Poet -
Jane Austen Novelist -
Leonardo da Vinci Painter -
Leo Tolstoy Writer -
Anne Hathaway Actress -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer