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Age: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
The silver livery of advised age.— H. VI. PT. II. v. 2.
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old, with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken? your wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and every part about you blasted with antiquity? and will you yet call yourself young? O fye, Sir John.— H. IV. PT. II. i. 2
Youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness.— H. iv. 7
Though now this grained face of mine be hid In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, And all the conduits of my blood froze up; Yet hath my night of life some memory, My wasting lamp some fading glimmer left, My dull deaf ears a little use to hear.— C. E. v. 1.
I would there were no age between ten and three-andtwenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing between but wenching, wronging the ancientry, stealing, and fighting.— W. T. iii. 3.
His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men's voices to commend our deeds: It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands; Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity.— J. C. ii. 1.
As you are old and reverend you should be wise.— K. L. i. 4.
When age is in the wit is out.— M. A. iii. 5
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age, And twit with cowardice a man half dead?— H. VI. PT. 1. iii. 2
Age And Frailty
The blood of youth burns not with such excess— L. L. v. 2.
As gravity's revolt to wantonness. Thou should'st not have been old before thou had'st been— K. L. i. 5
And Grief
I am old now,— K. L. v. 3.
And these same crosses spoil me. J! grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last; And careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, Have written strange defeatures in my face.— C. E. v. 1.
Tha tedious old fools!— H. ii. 2.