35 Best WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Quotes About CHANGE!

“To be, or not to be? That is the question!”

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. Shakespeare was born in the 1500’s, but his plays are just as popular today as they were when he was alive!

Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays include:

Romeo And Juliet
Hamlet
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Macbeth

…And many more.

Shakespeare was one of the best English writers of all time, and it’s easy to see why. His plays feature timeless quotes about life, love, relationships, and more.

Whether you’re interested in deep philosophical quotes about life, funny Shakespeare quotes, or hot and heavy Shakespeare quotes about love and romance, we’ve got you covered!

Without further ado, here are the best William Shakespeare quotes about change!

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Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Change

“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.” -William Shakespeare
“So far from variation or quick change?” -William Shakespeare
“Fair, kind, and true” is all my argument, Fair, kind, and true” varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.” -William Shakespeare
“The leopard does not change his spots.” -William Shakespeare
“The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.” -William Shakespeare
“If you shall send them word you will not come, Their minds may change.” -William Shakespeare
“The lamentable change is from the best; The worst returns to laughter.” -William Shakespeare
“A good heart is the sun and the moon or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.” -William Shakespeare
“For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.” -William Shakespeare
“And it is great; To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.” -William Shakespeare
“Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.” -William Shakespeare
“All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral– Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary.” -William Shakespeare
“This world is not for aye, nor ’tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For ’tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.” -William Shakespeare
“There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.” -William Shakespeare
“This world is not for aye, nor ’tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change; For ’tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.” -William Shakespeare
“O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.” -William Shakespeare
“Thinkst thou Id make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions No to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.” -William Shakespeare
“Think’st thou I’d make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.” -William Shakespeare
“That we would do We should do when we would, for this ‘would’ changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this ‘should’ is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.” -William Shakespeare
“Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.” -William Shakespeare
“Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.” -William Shakespeare
“… the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes On Life Lessons

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” -William Shakespeare
“To do a great right, do a little wrong.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” -William Shakespeare
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -William Shakespeare
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious-dear than life.” -William Shakespeare
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” -William Shakespeare
“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” -William Shakespeare
“Thy overflow of good converts to bad.” -William Shakespeare
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” -William Shakespeare
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” -William Shakespeare
“Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” -William Shakespeare
“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
“This above all; to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” -William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.” -William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” -William Shakespeare
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” -William Shakespeare
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” -William Shakespeare
“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” -William Shakespeare
“In time we hate that which we often fear.” -William Shakespeare
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.” -William Shakespeare
“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
“Virtue itself ‘scapes not calumnious strokes.” -William Shakespeare
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Love

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“I loved Ophelia: Forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is begun by time, And time qualifies the spark and fire of it.” -William Shakespeare
“This is the very ecstasy of love.” -William Shakespeare
“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.” -William Shakespeare
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known.” -William Shakespeare
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?” -William Shakespeare
“For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.” -William Shakespeare
“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.” -William Shakespeare
“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you: Nor can imagination form a shape Besides yourself to like of.” -William Shakespeare
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you.’” -William Shakespeare
“But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, / But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, / And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.” -William Shakespeare
“Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love’s sighs.” -William Shakespeare
“But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.” -William Shakespeare
“Sweet, above thought I love thee.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a spirit all compact of fire.” -William Shakespeare
“O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, / Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away!” -William Shakespeare
“To be wise, and love, Exceeds man’s might.” -William Shakespeare
“He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she: And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.” -William Shakespeare
“Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.” -William Shakespeare
“For ever and a day.” -William Shakespeare
“In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.” -William Shakespeare
“In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.” -William Shakespeare
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; A lover’s ears will hear the lowest sound.” -William Shakespeare
“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” -William Shakespeare
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” -William Shakespeare
“She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.” -William Shakespeare
“They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them.” -William Shakespeare
“What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter: Present mirth hath present laughter.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.” -William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” -William Shakespeare
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” -William Shakespeare
“For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where though art not, desolation.” -William Shakespeare
“I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” -William Shakespeare
“Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.” -William Shakespeare
“Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” -William Shakespeare
“No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved, but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason. No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.” -William Shakespeare
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Plays

“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” -William Shakespeare
“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
“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” -William Shakespeare
“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at.” -William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare
“This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war.” -William Shakespeare
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” -William Shakespeare
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.”
“All that glisters is not gold.” -William Shakespeare
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.” -William Shakespeare
“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” -William Shakespeare
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it..” -William Shakespeare
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” -William Shakespeare
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” -William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” -William Shakespeare
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be; that is the question; Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer; The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.” -William Shakespeare
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Life

“O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.” -William Shakespeare
“Let life be short: else shame will be too long.” -William Shakespeare
“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep, where fathom-line could never touch the ground, and pluck up drowned honor by the locks.” -William Shakespeare
“To do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.” -William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” -William Shakespeare
“To be, or not to be—that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep.” -William Shakespeare
The sands are number’d that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.” -William Shakespeare
“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
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.” -William Shakespeare
“Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.” -William Shakespeare
“Get thee to a nunnery.” -William Shakespeare
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” -William Shakespeare
“Now is the winter of our discontent.” -William Shakespeare
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” -William Shakespeare
“As merry as the day is long.” -William Shakespeare
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” -William Shakespeare
“I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.” -William Shakespeare
“There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.” -William Shakespeare
“Thy life’s a miracle.” -William Shakespeare
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” -William Shakespeare
“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.” -William Shakespeare
“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.” -William Shakespeare
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” -William Shakespeare
“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
“It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.” -William Shakespeare
“Beware the Ides of March.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Happiness

“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.” -William Shakespeare
“I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.” -William Shakespeare
“But here’s the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!” -William Shakespeare
“It is that fery person for all the world, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death’s-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!” -William Shakespeare
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!” -William Shakespeare
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.” -William Shakespeare
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?” -William Shakespeare
“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.” -William Shakespeare
“A goodly portly man, i’ faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by’r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.” -William Shakespeare
“Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!”
“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!” -William Shakespeare
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” -William Shakespeare
“I wish you all the joy that you can wish.” -William Shakespeare
“Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.” -William Shakespeare
“Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” -William Shakespeare
“Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.- Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -William Shakespeare
“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne’er dream’d a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.” -William Shakespeare
“There’s nothing in this world can make me joy.” -William Shakespeare
“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!” -William Shakespeare
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.” -William Shakespeare
“This told, I joy; but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad.” -William Shakespeare
“O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.” -William Shakespeare
“Think with thyself How more unfortunate than all living women Are we come hither; since that thy sight, which should Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts, Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow, Making the mother, wife, and child, to see The son, the husband, and the father, tearing His country’s bowels out.” -William Shakespeare
“And now what rests but that we spend the time; With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows, Such as befits the pleasure of the court; Sound drums and trumpets farewell sour annoy; For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Joy absent, grief is present for that time.”
“All days of glory, joy, and happiness.” -William Shakespeare
“Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes.” -William Shakespeare
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!” -William Shakespeare
“Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.” -William Shakespeare
“Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” -William Shakespeare
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity to ‘get a toy For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy.” -William Shakespeare
“Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.” -William Shakespeare
“He that is thy friend indeed, / He will help thee in thy need: / If thou sorrow, he will weep; / If thou wake, he cannot sleep: / Thus of every grief in heart.” -William Shakespeare
“I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure / I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends; / And as my fortune ripens with thy love, / It shall be still thy true love’s recompense.” -William Shakespeare
“Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself; / For friends kill friends, and the disorder’s such / As war were hoodwink’d.” -William Shakespeare
“My way of life / Is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf, / And that which should accompany old age, / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not.” -William Shakespeare
“To Milan let me hear from thee by letters / Of thy success in love, and what news else / Betideth here in absence of thy friend; / And I likewise will visit thee with mine.” -William Shakespeare
“Madam, you wrong the King’s love with these fears; / Your hopes and friends are infinite.” -William Shakespeare
“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; / And liquor likewise will I give to thee, / And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.” -William Shakespeare
“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” -William Shakespeare
But to be rough, unswayable, and free.” -William Shakespeare
“Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: / Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.” -William Shakespeare
“The great man down, you mark his favourite flies, / The poor advanc’d makes friends of enemies; / And hitherto doth love on fortune tend, / For who not needs shall never lack a friend, / And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy.” -William Shakespeare
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.” -William Shakespeare
“I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.” -William Shakespeare
“If any man challenge this, he / is a friend to Alencon and an enemy to our person; if thou / encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.” -William Shakespeare
“For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.” -William Shakespeare
“Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all, to envious and calumniating time.” -William Shakespeare
“In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you that by the way; I praise heaven for it.” -William Shakespeare
“My friends were poor but honest.” -William Shakespeare
“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.” -William Shakespeare
“Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!” -William Shakespeare
“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes From Romeo And Juliet

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare
“One fairer than my love? the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.” -William Shakespeare
“For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.” -William Shakespeare
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” -William Shakespeare
“Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.” -William Shakespeare
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” -William Shakespeare
“I fear too early, for my mind misgives; Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin.” -William Shakespeare
“I defy you, stars.” -William Shakespeare
“Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” -William Shakespeare
“Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.” -William Shakespeare
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” -William Shakespeare
“Thus with a kiss I die.” -William Shakespeare
And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” -William Shakespeare
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” -William Shakespeare
“These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die.” -William Shakespeare
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.” -William Shakespeare
“What must be shall be.” -William Shakespeare
“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” -William Shakespeare
“This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” -William Shakespeare
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -William Shakespeare
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.” -William Shakespeare
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand, O that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!” -William Shakespeare
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” -William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” -William Shakespeare
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings And soar with them above a common bound.” -William Shakespeare
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” -William Shakespeare
“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.” -William Shakespeare
“Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” -William Shakespeare
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.” -William Shakespeare
“All are punished.” -William Shakespeare
“If he be married my grave is like to be my wedding bed.” -William Shakespeare
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” -William Shakespeare
“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.” -William Shakespeare
“Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties.” -William Shakespeare

Best William Shakespeare Quotes About Time

“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
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” -William Shakespeare
“Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.” -William Shakespeare
“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
“There’s a time for all things.” -William Shakespeare
“The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.” -William Shakespeare
“Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.” -William Shakespeare
“The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!” -William Shakespeare
“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I’ll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.” -William Shakespeare
“We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.” -William Shakespeare
“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.” -William Shakespeare
“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky!” -William Shakespeare
“Time’s glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” -William Shakespeare
“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.” -William Shakespeare
“The time is out of joint.” -William Shakespeare
“Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.” -William Shakespeare
“Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.” -William Shakespeare
“Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.” -William Shakespeare
“So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.” -William Shakespeare
“Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow.” -William Shakespeare
“My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.” -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 weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.” -William Shakespeare
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.” -William Shakespeare
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch’d.” -William Shakespeare
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.” -William Shakespeare
“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.” -William Shakespeare
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayWhat’s past and what’s to come is strew’d with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.” -William Shakespeare
“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.” -William Shakespeare
“What e’er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.” -William Shakespeare
“I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o’clock at midnight.” -William Shakespeare
“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.” -William Shakespeare
“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.” -William Shakespeare
“I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.” -William Shakespeare
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial’s point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.” -William Shakespeare