Shakespeare Quotes About Time

    21 quotes across 7 plays.

    Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

    Her infinite variety: other women cloy

    Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

    We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 2·Act 3, Scene 2

    O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,

    I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any other word but my name.

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 2·Act 4, Scene 3

    What a disgrace is it to me to remember thy name!

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 2·Act 2, Scene 2

    Our wooing doth not end like an old play; Jack hath not Jill.

    Berowne·Love's Labour's Lost·Act 5, Scene 2

    They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

    Berowne·Love's Labour's Lost·Act 4, Scene 3

    Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.

    Maria·Love's Labour's Lost·Act 2, Scene 1

    I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;

    King Richard II·Richard II·Act 5, Scene 5

    Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;

    King Richard II·Richard II·Act 3, Scene 2

    Nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.

    King Richard II·Richard II·Act 3, Scene 2

    O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face.

    Aegeon·The Comedy of Errors·Act 5, Scene 1

    We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

    Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,

    Ulysses·Troilus and Cressida·Act 3, Scene 3

    The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

    Hector·Troilus and Cressida·Act 4, Scene 5

    Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows!

    Ulysses·Troilus and Cressida·Act 1, Scene 3

    A sad tale's best for winter: I have one Of sprites and goblins.

    Mamillius·The Winter's Tale·Act 2, Scene 1

    O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

    Leontes·The Winter's Tale·Act 5, Scene 3

    It is required You do awake your faith.

    Paulina·The Winter's Tale·Act 5, Scene 3