William Shakespeare: Citáty anglicky (strana 33)

“Are you up to your destiny?”

“Fortune love you.”

“Less art, more matter”

“Action is eloquence.”

“When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors”

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”

“Come, thou tortoise!”

“Make love’s quick pants”

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”

“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”

“What a piece of work is a 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!”

“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.”

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

“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.”

“I was in love with my bed.”

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”