Accidental Virtues
Though I am not naturally honest,
I am so sometimes by chance.
-The Winter’s Tale,
Act IV, Scene iii

Though I am not naturally honest,
I am so sometimes by chance.
-The Winter’s Tale,
Act IV, Scene iii

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act III, Scene ii

O you beast! O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!…
O, fie, fie, fie! Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.
Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd.
-Measure For Measure,
Act III, Scene i

They have been at a great feast of languages,
and stolen the scraps.
–Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act V, Scene i

Were kisses all the joys in bed,
One woman would another wed.
-The Passionate Pilgrim

I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.
-Timon of Athens,
Act IV, Scene iii

You’re shallow, madam, in great friends.
-All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act I, Scene iii