Age Quotes by 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

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

— 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

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is…

— William Shakespeare

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long…

— William Shakespeare

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare