William Shakespeare Quotes About Change

• The leopard does not change his spots.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Doe, Leopards

• The love of wicked men converts to fear;
  That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
  To worthy danger and deserved death.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hate, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.423, Cengage Learning EMEA

• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

• Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
  To change true rules for odd inventions.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Fashion, Nice

  1593 Bianca to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.78-9.

• Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Change, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.273

• Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that
  the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Marriage, Men

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.75, Courier Corporation

• All things that we ordained festival
  Turn from their office to black funeral--
  Our instruments to melancholy bells,
  Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;
  Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
  Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;
  And all things change them to the contrary.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Cheer, Flower

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.247

• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Change, World

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

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