William Shakespeare1564–1616The quotations of
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
1564–1616
335 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Good & Evil. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.
Like as the waves make towards
the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.Sonnet 60 (1609)In contextCome what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.Macbeth (1606), Act I, scene iii.In contextThe time is out of joint. O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right.Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene V, spoken by HamletIn context- Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene III, spoken by BanquoIn context
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
Who covers faults, at last shame derides.King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by CordeliaIn context- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LysanderIn context
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by PuckIn context
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost fairy time.A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn contextWhat seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ProsperoIn context- The Tempest (c. 1611), Act II, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
O time, thou must untangle this, not I,
It is too hard a knot for me t’untie!Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act II, Scene II, spoken by ViolaIn context- As You Like It (c. 1599), Act III, Scene II, spoken by RosalindIn context
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,Sonnet 30 (1609)In context- Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene V, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Richard II (c. 1595), Act III, Scene II, spoken by SalisburyIn context
