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If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow, and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene III, spoken by BanquoIn context
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
Who covers faults, at last shame derides.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by CordeliaIn context
- Truth & Lies
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And, ere a man hath power to say, ‘Behold!’
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LysanderIn context
- Love
I’ll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A 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.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn context
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ProsperoIn context
What’s past is prologue
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act II, Scene I, spoken by AntonioIn context
- History
O time, thou must untangle this, not I,
It is too hard a knot for me t’untie!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act II, Scene II, spoken by ViolaIn context
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 Shakespeare1564–1616As 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,
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 30 (1609)In context
- Thinking
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. 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 Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene V, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Life & Death
O, call back yesterday, bid time return
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard II (c. 1595), Act III, Scene II, spoken by SalisburyIn context
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard II (c. 1595), Act V, Scene V, spoken by RichardIn context
Time enough to think of the future when you haven’t any future to think of.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Act II, spoken by HigginsIn context
- Advice
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ozymandias (1818)In context
- Power