Spring Renewal: 80+ Shakespeare Quotes Blossoming with Life

Introduction:

As the frost of winter gives way to the warmth of the sun, the world awakens in the embrace of spring. Just as nature flourishes, Shakespeare’s words capture the essence of this season’s rebirth, love, and rejuvenation.

In this compilation, we gather more than 80+ quotes from the Bard that eloquently express the splendour and sentiment of spring. Let these timeless lines remind you of the beauty that unfolds as flowers bloom and hearts awaken in the gentle embrace of the season.

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Quotes About Blaming Yourself

1. “Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste.” – William Shakespeare
2. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare
3. “For winter’s rains and ruins are over, and all the season of snows and sins.” – William Shakespeare
4. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare
5. “I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.” – William Shakespeare
6. “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” – William Shakespeare
7. “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” – William Shakespeare
8. “The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, if not from my love’s breath?” – William Shakespeare
9. “A day in April never came so sweet.” – William Shakespeare
10. “When daisies pied and violets blue and lady-smocks all silver-white and cuckoo-buds of yellow hue do paint the meadows with delight.” – William Shakespeare
11. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” – William Shakespeare
12. “Spring’s greatest joy, is when it seems, the flowers that dream of tropical skies are kissed by sun and air, and rise, half dead, from the earth’s winter tomb.” – William Shakespeare
13. “The spring, the summer, the childing autumn, angry winter, change their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, by their increase, now knows not which is which.” – William Shakespeare
14. “So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently entwist; the female ivy so enrings the barky fingers of the elm.” – William Shakespeare
15. “And thus I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends, stol’n forth of holy writ; and seem a saint when most I play the devil.” – William Shakespeare
16. “O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day.” – William Shakespeare
17. “Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.” – William Shakespeare
18. “It was the lark, the herald of the morn; no nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.” – William Shakespeare
19. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare
20. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” – William Shakespeare
21. “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.” – William Shakespeare
22. “My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn.” – William Shakespeare
23. “Love is too young to know what conscience is.” – William Shakespeare
24. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” – William Shakespeare
25. “The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” – William Shakespeare
26. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare
27. “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” – William Shakespeare
28. “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” – William Shakespeare
29. “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” – William Shakespeare
30. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Quotes about Growth and Transformation:

31. “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” – William Shakespeare
32. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
33. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare
34. “The better part of valour, is discretion.” – William Shakespeare
35. “And though she be but little, she is fierce.” – William Shakespeare
36. “Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.” – William Shakespeare
37. “To thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare
38. “Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.” – William Shakespeare
39. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare
40. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” – William Shakespeare
41. “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” – William Shakespeare
42. “What’s past is prologue.” – William Shakespeare
43. “The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” – William Shakespeare
44. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – William Shakespeare
45. “The better part of valour is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.” – William Shakespeare
46. “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d.” – William Shakespeare
47. “God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.” – William Shakespeare
48. “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!” – William Shakespeare
49. “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” – William Shakespeare
50. “True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings.” – William Shakespeare
51. “This above all: to thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare
52. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” – William Shakespeare
53. “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.” – William Shakespeare
54. “The golden age is before us, not behind us.” – William Shakespeare
55. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
56. “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” – William Shakespeare
57. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” – William Shakespeare
58. “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” – William Shakespeare
59. “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” – William Shakespeare
60. “To be or not to be, that is the question.” – William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Quotes Using Spring as a Backdrop for Love and Romance:

61. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” – Sonnet 18
62. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
63. “The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
64. “It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.” – Romeo and Juliet
65. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – Twelfth Night
66. “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” – Romeo and Juliet
67. “See how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.” – Romeo and Juliet
68. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” – Romeo and Juliet
69. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.” – Hamlet
70. “The spring, when every feathered thing on earth doth couple and conceive.” – The Two Noble Kinsmen
71. “Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by.” – The Merchant of Venice
72. “So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet a union in partition.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
73. “O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!” – Two Gentlemen of Verona
74. “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” – Twelfth Night
75. “Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?” – Hamlet
76. “But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st.” – Sonnet 18
77. “In the springtime of his vices, in his youth, There is no virtue.” – Antony and Cleopatra
78. “If thou remember’st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.” – As You Like It
79. “Then let me be your servant; Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty.” – The Taming of the Shrew
80. “So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not to those fresh morning drops upon the rose, as thy eyebeams, when their fresh rays have smote the night of dew that on my cheeks downflows.” – Romeo and Juliet
81. “The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.” – The Merry Wives of Windsor
82. “Love is too young to know what conscience is.” – Sonnet 151
83. “The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, if not from my love’s breath?” – Sonnet 99
84. “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.” – Sonnet 104
85. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – The Tempest
86. “Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be.” – Sonnet 132
87. “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.” – Henry VI, Part 1
88. “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” – Romeo and Juliet
89. “They do not love that do not show their love.” – The Two Gentlemen of Verona
90. “My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn.” – Taming of the Shrew

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Conclusion:

Like the delicate petals of blossoms, Shakespeare’s verses paint a vivid picture of spring’s grace. Through his words, we hear the songs of birds, feel the warmth of the sun, and experience the profound awakening that this season brings. 

As you wander through the tapestry of his quotes, may you find inspiration and delight in the eternal connection between literature and the rejuvenating spirit of spring.

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