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Youth: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace.— L. L. iii. 1.

He capers, he dances, he has the eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holyday, he smells April and May: he will carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he will— M. W. iii. 2.

A violet in the youth of primy nature. She is young, and apt; Our own precedent passions do instruct us— T. A. i. 1.

What levity's in youth.— L. L. iv. 3

Young blood doth not obey an old decree. For in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect, Such as moves men; besides, she hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade.

Briefly die their joys, That place them on the truth of girls and boys. Cym. v. 5 We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal.— W.T. i. 2

A proper stripling, and an amorous!— T. S. i. 2.

Youth, Melancholy

He hears merry tales, and smiles not: I fear he will the weeping philosopher when he grows prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.— M. V. i. 2.

Unrestrained

When his headstrong riot hath no curb, rage and When rage and hot blood are his counsellors, hot blood are his counsellors, When means and lavish manners meet together; O, with what wings shall his affections fly Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay.— H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4.