William Shakespeare Quotes about Time - Page 2

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

William Shakespeare

Time, Littles, Faults

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

William Shakespeare

Time, Fall, Yellow

William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

William Shakespeare

Time, Character, Names

William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (1989). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

William Shakespeare

Time, Grief, Night

William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

William Shakespeare

Time, Boast

William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakspere's songs and sonnets, illustr. by J. Gilbert [ed. by H. Staunton. Interleaved.].”, p.65

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

William Shakespeare

Time, Desert, Shade

William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

William Shakespeare

Time, Years, White Hair

William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.476

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

William Shakespeare

Time, Sun, Absence

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage”, p.145

Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.

William Shakespeare

Time, Young, Worst

1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

William Shakespeare

Time, Youth, Brows

Sonnet 60

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare

Time, Strong, Mean

'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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

Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.

William Shakespeare

Time, Flower, Use

1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

William Shakespeare

Time, Glasses, Long

Sonnet 22

But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

William Shakespeare

Time, Strong, Men

William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1861). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading”, p.185

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

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

William Shakespeare

Time, Eye, Hands

'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]