William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

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  • Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

    William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355
  • We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

    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
  • Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]
  • Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

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

    Strong  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52
  • 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 (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin
  • Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.114
  • Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  • ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

    Sea  
    William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

    'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. [377]
  • In time we hate that which we often fear.

    Hate  
    'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 12
  • Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.

    "All's Well That Ends Well". Play by Thomas Middleton and William Shakespeare, 1741
  • Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

    'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145
  • We see which way the stream of time doth run.

    Running  
    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
  • 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.

    Grief  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press
  • Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

    William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56
  • 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 (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176
  • Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

    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”
  • What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.595
  • We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

    William Shakespeare (1813). “King Henry IV, part 2; King Henry V”, p.49
  • 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 (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché
  • ... 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
  • Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

    1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.334-5.
  • The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

    William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.130
  • Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

    1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.
  • 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.

    'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165
  • No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

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

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

    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
  • 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. . . .

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