William Shakespeare Quotes About Youth

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

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Sonnet 98

• 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

• 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]

• What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1019, Bloomsbury Publishing

• 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]

• 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

• Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Fairness, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1798). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition...”, p.389

• He wears the rose
  Of youth upon him.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Flower, Rose

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 20

• He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Beard, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.107

• Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Youth, Grammar

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 7, l. [35]

• 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

• I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Sloth, World

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.3

• What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Kissing

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

• For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.

  William Shakespeare

  Youth, Faster, Grows

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Farmer, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I”, p.291

• In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Midnight, Youth

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [26]

• As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Father, Comfort

  Sonnet 37

• We have some salt of our youth in us.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Salt, Youth

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Memorable, Youth

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2

• Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
  And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Youth, Brows

  Sonnet 60

• 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

• This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Teaching, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

• Youth is full of 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, and age is tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Time, Age

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

• Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Character, Names

  William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (1989). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

• My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Glasses, Long

  Sonnet 22

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