William Shakespeare Quotes About Spring

• April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Sonnet 98

• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Spring, Women

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

• It was a lover and his lass,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
  That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
  When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
  Sweet lovers love the spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Spring, Bird

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

• Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Spring, Garden

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

• The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
  And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
  An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
  Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
  The childing autumn, angry winter, change
  Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
  By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Spring

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

• Dirty days hath September
  April June and November
  From January up to May
  The rain it raineth every day
  All the rest have thirty-one
  Without a blessed gleam of sun
  And if any of them had two-and-thirty
  They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty."
  
  
  
  "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Blessed, Rain

• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
  But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
  Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
  Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
  Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
  Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Summer, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

• Daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Wind

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

• When daffodils begin to peer,
  With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
  Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
  For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.
  The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
  With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
  Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
  For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kings, Spring

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
  Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
  Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
  Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
  In process of the seasons have I seen,
  Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
  Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

• You'd be so lean, that blast of January
  Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
  I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
  Become your time of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Blow

• Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Love You, Clouds

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 3, l. 84

• See where she comes apparelled like the spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Spring

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 12

• In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Spring, Bird

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

• Well-apparel'd April on the heel
  Of limping Winter treads.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Winter, April

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

• His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Spring

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 3, l. [22]

• Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Art, Spring

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

• Who are the violets now
  That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Violet

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 46

• ... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Time, Spring

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.134

• These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sports, Beach

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58

• From you have I been absent in the spring,
  When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
  Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Proud, Youth

  Sonnet 98

• What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Spring, Years

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

• Short summers lightly have a forward spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Short Summer

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.103

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