Age Quotes by William Shakespeare · Page 2

I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

— William Shakespeare

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

— William Shakespeare

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

— William Shakespeare

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

— William Shakespeare

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

— William Shakespeare

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.

— William Shakespeare

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

— William Shakespeare

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and…

— William Shakespeare

Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises…

— William Shakespeare

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time…

— William Shakespeare

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;…

— William Shakespeare

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds Importing…

— William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age…

— William Shakespeare

Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is…

— William Shakespeare

But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all…

— William Shakespeare

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

— William Shakespeare

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

— William Shakespeare

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

— William Shakespeare

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

— William Shakespeare

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of…

— William Shakespeare

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up…

— William Shakespeare

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing…

— William Shakespeare

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would…

— William Shakespeare

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl…

— William Shakespeare

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age…

— William Shakespeare

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age…

— William Shakespeare