William Shakespeare Hours Quotations

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

Grief makes one hour ten.

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

O God! methinks it were a happy life,To be no better than a homely swain;To sit upon a hill, as I do now,To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,Thereby to see the minutes how they run,How many make the hour full complete;How many hours bring about the day;How many days will finish up the year;How many years a mortal man may live.