William Shakespeare Quotes About Age

• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

• Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Loyalty, Kings, Enemy

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 456

• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

• If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lying, Writing

  Sonnet 17

• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

• Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
  But not a sceptre to control the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Power, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.784

• You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Age

• Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Years, Age

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [283]

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, 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

• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Maturity, Past

• Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
  Nor age so eat up my invention,
  Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
  Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
  But they shall find awaked in such a kind
  Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
  Ability in means, and choice of friends,
  To quit me of them throughly.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Blood, Choices

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.366

• 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

  Summer, Sports, Winter

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics

• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
  Her infinite variety.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Age, Infinite

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

• A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.308, BookCaps Study Guides

• He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Promise, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with a Glossary”, p.131

• Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Hands

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]

• Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Age

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

• In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Night, Fire

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
  Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Learning, Years

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

• The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dying, Age

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

• You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Blood, Age

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 68

• How many ages hence
  Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
  In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Age, Scene

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 111

• You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Age

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [275]

• There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Evil

  William Shakespeare (1790*). “The Beauties of Shakespeare; Selected from His Works. To which are Added, the Principal Scenes in the Same Author. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged”, p.204

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