William Shakespeare Quotes About Summer

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  • 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.

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249
  • 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, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
  • 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 (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Art  
    Sonnet 18
  • Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

    William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.154, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.

    Boys  
    'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352
  • This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

    Love   Flower  
    'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118
  • The course of true love never did run smooth.

    Love  
    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132
  • 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 (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58
  • But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

    Sonnet 18
  • Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

    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 (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.134
  • 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.

    Love  
    William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43
  • Lord, what fools these mortals be!

    'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 115
  • Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

    Sonnet 18
  • Now is the winter of our discontent.

    '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

    Flower  
    Sonnet 94
  • 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.

    Sonnet 94
  • 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.

    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
  • Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

    Flower  
    William Shakespeare, William George CLARK, William Aldis Wright (1866). “The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright”, p.1040
  • To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers' pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

    1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.
  • Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

    'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

    Sonnet 18
  • Thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.

    Love  
    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [207]
  • 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, 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
  • Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

    Wind  
    Sonnet 18
  • 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?

    Strong  
    1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.
  • 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?

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63
  • 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 . . .

    Art   Wind  
    Sonnet 18
  • Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

    William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.103
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