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William Shakespeare Quotes about Age

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

William Shakespeare
Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

William Shakespeare
Love, Romantic, Age

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

William Shakespeare
Brain, Age, Weakness
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

William Shakespeare
Love, Years, Age
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [283]

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Age, Infinite
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

William Shakespeare
Love, Women, Age
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

William Shakespeare
Love, Blood, Age
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 68

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

William Shakespeare
Giving, Stupidity, Age
1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act1, sc.3, l.57.

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

William Shakespeare
Journey, Age, Earth
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (écrivain) (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.71

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare
Time, Winter, Age
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

William Shakespeare
Men, Talking, Age
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

William Shakespeare
Time, Age, Midnight
William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

William Shakespeare
Sports, Time, Age
William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

Nor age so eat up my invention.

William Shakespeare
Age, Invention
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

William Shakespeare
Age, Folks, Chronicles
William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

William Shakespeare
Age, Together, Care
'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

When the age is in, the wit is out

William Shakespeare
Age, Wit
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

William Shakespeare
Age, Youth, Thee
'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

William Shakespeare
Age, Lordship, Smack
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [111]

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

William Shakespeare
Men, Age, Half
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds Importing health and graveness.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Light, Age
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 77

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare
Death, Dying, Age
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

William Shakespeare
Pie, Age, Porridge
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.166

Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.

William Shakespeare
Iron, Age, Comfort
William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2001). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.461, A&C Black

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Age, Scene
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 111

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