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- Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XII
- Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXIV
- The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, sc. 2
- Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 5
- I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act V, sc. 5
- Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 5
- But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, sc. 1
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