Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare on New Year
1564–1616 England
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Macbeth (1605)
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
Hamlet (1600)
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Macbeth (1606)
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
The end crowns all;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Richard III (1591)
Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Othello (1603)
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope:
I've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.
Measure for Measure (1603)
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Richard III (1591)
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
King Lear (1608)
Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
And manage it against despairing thoughts.
'Gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
Measure for Measure (1603)
Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.