William Shakespeare: Citáty anglicky (strana 18)

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

“And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”

“Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?”

“Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”

“I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish…. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”

“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”

“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”

“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”

“O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!”

“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”

“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”