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William Shakespeare Quotes about Time

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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Time, Three
William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

There's a time for all things.

William Shakespeare
Time, All Things
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1073, BookCaps Study Guides

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

William Shakespeare
Life, Time, Past
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

William Shakespeare
Time, Hours, Contemplating
William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare
Time, Action, Hours
William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Motivational, Time
1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

William Shakespeare
Time, Procrastination, Delay
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens”

Let every man be master of his time.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Motivational, Time
William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare
Time, Kings, Men
William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.531

Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Life, Time
1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare
Birthday, Time, Player
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare
Motivational, Time, Memorable
'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

O, call back yesterday, bid time return

William Shakespeare
Time, Yesterday, Return
'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 69

Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.

William Shakespeare
Time, Grace
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.195

What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare
Time, Past, History
'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare
Time, Fear, Hate
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 12

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare
Time, Purpose, Causes
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.130

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

William Shakespeare
Time, Toil, Wave
Sonnet 60

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

William Shakespeare
Love, Time, Men
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

We see which way the stream of time doth run.

William Shakespeare
Running, Time, Way
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.436

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare
Time, Hands, Guests
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

William Shakespeare
Time, Long, Dancing
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

William Shakespeare
Time, Nurse, Good Times
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.227

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare
Time, Long, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.326, Oxford University Press on Demand

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare
Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints
1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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