William Shakespeare - Time Quotes

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Give me to drink mandragora…
That I might sleep out this great gap of time
My Antony is away.

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

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The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.

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But, alas! to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at.

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Cassius: How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,
In states unborn, and accents yet unknown!
Brutus: How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport.

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The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.

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For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?…
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.

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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

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Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

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The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

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Time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.

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The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

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There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased.

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I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulder that I see
Before me at this instant.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

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Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
And many maiden gardens yet unset,
With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repair
Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

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What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning!

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This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.

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A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.

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Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.

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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
Nor age so eat up my invention,
Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
But they shall find awaked in such a kind
Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
Ability in means, and choice of friends,
To quit me of them throughly.

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Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

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O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having....

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What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace
We will perform in measure, time, and place.

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Comets importing change of times and states,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

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'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.

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The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.

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