William Shakespeare Quotes about Change

All William Shakespeare Quotes 4th Of July Abuse Acting Adventure Adversity Affection Age Aging Alcohol Ambition Anger Anxiety Appearance Appreciation Army Art Atheism Attitude Authority Autumn Balance Beauty Beer Being Yourself Belief Birth Blame Bliss Boat Bones Boredom Bravery Business Caring Challenges Change quotes Chaos Character Charity Chastity Childhood Children Choices Christianity Christmas Church Communication Compassion Confidence Confusion Conscience Contentment Cooking Corruption Country Courage Courtship Creation Creativity Crime Cynicism Dad Dance Dancing Darkness Death Deception Defeat Desire Destiny Devil Dignity Doubt Drinking Duty Dying Earth Eating Encouraging Envy Equality Eternity Ethics Evil Excellence Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Fairness Faith Falling In Love Fame Family Fashion Fate Fear Fear Of Death Feelings Fighting Flattery Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Fun Funeral Funny Future Generosity Genius Gentleness Giving Glory God Gold Goodbye Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Greed Grief Grieving Growth Guilt Halloween Happiness Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Hilarious History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horror House Human Nature Humanity Humility Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Ignorance Imagination Injury Innocence Insanity Insomnia Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Jealousy Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Killing Kindness Kissing Knowledge Labor Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liars Liberty Life Life And Death Listening Literature Losing Loss Love Loyalty Luck Lust Lying Madness Magic Marriage Memorial Day Memories Mercy Military Moderation Modesty Money Moon Morning Mortality Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Nature Navy Negotiation Obedience Obesity Offense Office Opportunity Pain Painting Parenting Passion Past Patience Peace Perfection Perseverance Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Politics Positive Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preparation Pride Procrastination Prophet Prosperity Protest Purpose Quality Rage Rain Reading Reflection Religion Reputation Respect Retirement Revenge Revolution Rings Risk Romance Romantic Love Royalty Running Sad Sadness Safety School Science Self Love Shame Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sisterhood Skins Slavery Sleep Sloth Smile Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Speed Sports Spring Strength Study Stupidity Success Suffering Summer Swearing Sympathy Taxes Teaching Team Temperance Temptation Terror Thankfulness Theatre Tigers Time Time Management Trade Tragedy Travel True Love Trust Truth Twilight Tyranny Uncertainty Understanding Unrequited Love Victory Violence Virtue Vision Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Witchcraft Work Worship Writing Youth

The leopard does not change his spots.

William Shakespeare

Change, Doe, Leopards

The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.

William Shakespeare

Change, Hate, Men

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.423, Cengage Learning EMEA

That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.

William Shakespeare

Change, Hurt, Hands

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary.

William Shakespeare

Change, Cheer, Flower

William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Love, Change, World

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.

William Shakespeare

Change, Fashion, Nice

1593 Bianca to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.78-9.

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

William Shakespeare

Change, Marriage, Men

William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.75, Courier Corporation

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

William Shakespeare

Life, Change, Moon

William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.273