Age Quotes by William Shakespeare

At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

— William Shakespeare

You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

— William Shakespeare

Nor age so eat up my invention.

— William Shakespeare

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

— William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

— William Shakespeare

When the age is in, the wit is out

— William Shakespeare

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

— William Shakespeare

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors…

— William Shakespeare

Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze…

— William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which…

— William Shakespeare

Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright…

— William Shakespeare

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc…

— William Shakespeare

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I…

— William Shakespeare

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should…

— William Shakespeare

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left…

— William Shakespeare

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

— William Shakespeare