William Shakespeare

“This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”

“I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.”

“You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care”

“The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees,And they did make no noise, in such a night,Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls,And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,Where Cressid lay that night.”

“Leben ist nur ein wandelnd Schattenbild;Ein armer Komödiant, der spreizt und knirschtSein Stündchen auf der Bühn' und dann nicht mehr Vernommen wird; ein Märchen ist's, erzählt Von einem Dummkopf voller Klang und Wut,Das nichts bedeutet.”

“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”

“By being seldom seen, I could not stir,But, like a comet, I was wondered at...He was but as the cuckoo is in June, Heard, not regarded--seen, but with such eyes,As, sick and blunted with community, Afford no extraordinary gaze.”

“O that I were a mockery king of snowStanding before the sun of BolingbrokeTo melt myself away in water drops!”

“No deeper wrinkles yet?Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?”

“I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!”

“Ma la virilità si è tutta smammolata in coccolette; il coraggio svaporato in complimenti, e gli uomini sono diventati tutti lingua, come dei pappagalli ammaestrati. Oggi è più valente di un Ercole chi sa meglio mentire e spergiurare. Non posso diventare uomo di mia volontà, e allora morirò donna per disperazione.”

“How shall I abideIn this dull world, which in thy absence isNo better than a sty?”

“Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.”

“The apparel oft proclaims the man”

“Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?”

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings;How some have been deposed; some slain in war,Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;All murder'd: for within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court and there the antic sits,Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,Allowing him a breath, a little scene,To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,Infusing him with self and vain conceit,As if this flesh which walls about our life,Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thusComes at the last and with a little pinBores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”

“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.In brief, sir, study what you most affect.”

“There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.”

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”

“Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.”

“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”

“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.”

“Invinge durerea, razi cat se poate, caci tot la zi ajunge si cea mai lunga noapte...”

“Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”

“I think he would not wish himself anywhere but where he is.”

“It is no mean happiness...to be seated in the mean”

“I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace; and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.”

“One woe doth tread upon another's heel. So fast they follow.”

“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?”

“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's blood, is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy but to confront the visage of offense? And what's in prayer but this twofold force, to be forestalled ere we come to fall, or pardoned being down? Then I'll look up. My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer can serve my tern? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?”

“the hate I bear thee can afford no better term then this: thou art a villian.”

“The oldest hath borne most; we that are youngShall never see so much, nor live so long.”

“We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he todayThat sheds his blood with meShall be my brother.”

“Apaga, estrela, pra luz não ver os meus desígnios negros. Fique o olho cego à mão, porém insisto que o que ele teme, feito, seja visto. -Macbeth, Ato I Cena IV”

“reason andlove keep little company together now-a-days...”

“That sport best pleases that doth least know how, where zeal strives to content, and the contents dies in the zeal of that which it presents. Their form confounded makes most form in mirth when great things laboring perish in their birth.”

“Iubirea schimbă-n limpezi frumuseți, tot ce-i mărunt și fără niciun preț. Ea vede nu cu ochii, ci cu dorul; de-aceea Cupidon luându-și zborul, precum un orb, așa-i infățișat... Copil nechibzuit, întraripat. Aripa-i semn că graba îi da ghes, de-aceea se înșală atât de des.”

“Ah, kill me with your weapon, not with words.”

“And while thoulivest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain anduncoined constancy; for he perforce must do theeright, because he hath not the gift to woo in otherplaces: for these fellows of infinite tongue, thatcan rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they doalways reason themselves out again. What! aspeaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. Agood leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; ablack beard will turn white; a curled pate will growbald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will waxhollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and themoon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for itshines bright and never changes, but keeps hiscourse truly. If thou would have such a one, takeme; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee”

“Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.”

“What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death.”

“O be some other name.”

“But, soft! methinks I do digress too much,”

“Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.”

“Can I go forward when my heart is here?Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.”

“Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:Such comfort as do lusty young men feelWhen well-apparell'd April on the heelOf limping winter treads, even such delightAmong fresh female buds shall you this nightInherit at my house; hear all, all see,And like her most whose merit most shall be:”

“Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts... (Act IV, Scene II)”

“Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.”

“Tráigame un cirujano, tengo herido el cerebro.”