William Shakespeare Quotes About Past

• Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Time, Past

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

• What is past is prologue.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, History

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]

• I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Past, Men

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]

• 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, 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Monsters

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

• We have seen better days.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Memorable, Past

  'Timon Of Athens' act 4, sc. 2, l. 27

• To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Gone, Way

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

• Remembrance of things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Remembrance, Nostalgia

  Sonnet 30

• For you and I are past our dancing days.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Past, Dancing

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [35]

• What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Grief, Loss

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]

• Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,
  Not what is dangerous present, but the los
  Of what is past.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, May, Fairness

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Classical Tragedies”, p.476, Bantam Classics

• O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

  William Shakespeare

  Block, Past, Endurance

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.49

• Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Reason, Enjoy

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”

• O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Pain, Past

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

• They say miracles are past.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Miracle

  1604-5 Lafeu. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 2, sc.3, l.1-6.

• When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Past, Remembrance

  Sonnet 30

• And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Past, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor”, p.44

• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Past, Thieves

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

• Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Past, Comfort

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.581

• Doubting things go ill often hurts more
  Than to be sure they do; for certainties
  Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
  The remedy then born.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Past, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.52

• The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sunset, Past

• O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
  'Tis like a pardon after execution.
  That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
  But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Past, Execution

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.384, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Past all shame, so past all truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Shame, Falsehood

• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
  By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Past, Late

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Ruins

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.595

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