William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Three

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

• Let every man be master of his time.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• 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

• Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Time, Memorable

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  1603-4 Iago to Cassio. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.262-4.

• What is past is prologue.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, History

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

• Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Procrastination, Delay

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens”

• 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]

• Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Kings, Men

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators; to which are added An essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry vi; an historical account of the English stage; and notes. By E. Malone. 10 vols. [in 11 pt.].”, p.531

• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Down And, Littles

  1592 Messenger to Richard telling of his fatherYork's death. HenryVI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.54-5.

• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Action, Hours

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.355

• In time we hate that which we often fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fear, Hate

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 3, l. 12

• O, call back yesterday, bid time return

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Yesterday, Return

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 69

• Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
  So do our minutes hasten to their end;
  Each changing place with that which goes before,
  In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Toil, Wave

  Sonnet 60

• Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eternity, Lackeys

• 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

• We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Gone, Time Management

  William Shakespeare (1813). “King Henry IV, part 2; King Henry V”, p.49

• Time is like a fashionable host
  That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
  And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,
  Grasps in the comer.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Guests

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

• There's a time for all things.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, All Things

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1073, BookCaps Study Guides

• At Christmas I no more desire a rose
  Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
  But like of each thing that in season grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Christmas, Time, Xmas

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

• Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Two

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

• The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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