Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare on Time
1564–1616 England
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29 quotes
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)
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)
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
King Lear (1608)
'Gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
Measure for Measure (1603)
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
Richard II (1595)
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.