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William Shakespeare Quotes about Youth

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Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

William Shakespeare (1798). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition...”, p.389

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2

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

'The Passionate Pilgrim' (1599), 12

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Oxford University Press, USA

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I”, p.291

The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.

William Shakespeare, Thomas PRICE (Late Chaplain in H.M. Convict Establishment at Woolwich.) (1853). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; ... with ... Notes, and Scriptural References ... by the Rev. T. Price. ... Second Edition, Enlarged”, p.289

For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

1599-1600 Adam to Orlando. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.3, l.48-53.