“Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!”
Source: 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.].
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
Source: 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
“Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Source: As You Like it
Source: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well
“There's a time for all things.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.”
“So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.”
Source: The Third Part of King Henry VI
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations
“We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.”
Source: 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
“The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.”
“Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.”
“Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.”
Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
Source: Macbeth
Source: The Second Part of King Henry IV
“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”
Source: King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3
“Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
“Grace and remembrance be to you both.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!”
Source: Shakespeare: Poems
“Heaven give you many, many merry days.”
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor
“A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.”
Source: Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon
“O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!”