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William Shakespeare Quotes about Summer

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare
Summer, Dream, Stupid People
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Spring, Wind
Sonnet 18

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare
Love, Summer, Spring
William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare
Love, Life, Summer
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Flower, Men
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7584, BookCaps Study Guides

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

William Shakespeare
Summer, Christian, Hurt
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full 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, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Sports, Winter
William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Poetry, Too Short
Sonnet 18

Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Flower, Winter
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2941, Oxford University Press

The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Weed, Sweet
Sonnet 94

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

William Shakespeare
Summer, Art, Wind
Sonnet 18

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Sweet, Spring
William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Eternity, Love Poems
Sonnet 18

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Dream, Sweet
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249

Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Art, Love You
Sonnet 18

Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Winter, Wish
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.927

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Time, Spring
William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.134

These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Sports, Beach
William Shakespeare (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58

Now is the winter of our discontent.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Winter, Merchant Of Venice
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

William Shakespeare
Summer, Sweet, Flower
Sonnet 94

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Winter, Clouds
William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Three, Phrases
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

William Shakespeare
Love, Summer, Flower
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Ocean, Winter
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

William Shakespeare
Summer, Strong, Health
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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