William Shakespeare citations célèbres
“Elle aimait la vie… Il aimait la mort…
I vivait pour elle… Elle est morte pour lui…”
Variante: Il aimait la mort, elle aimait la vie.
Il vivait pour elle, elle est morte pour lui.
The Tragical history of Hamlet, 1603
Citations sur les hommes et les garçons de William Shakespeare
Fritz Lang
“Shakespeare parle mieux que Freud de la façon dont désirent la plupart des hommes.”
Citation de René Girard, anthropologue, membre de l'académie française.
William Shakespeare Citations
“Une femme repousse parfois ce qui la charme le plus”
Variante: Une femme repousse parfois ce qui la charme le plus.»
“L'amour, un délicat enfant! il est brutal, rude, violent! il écorche comme l'épine.”
Roméo et Juliette / Le Songe d'une nuit d'été
Citation de Jimmy Page, guitariste et producteur anglais
“Chaque fois que j'ai lu Shakespeare, il m'a semblé que je déchiquetais la cervelle d'un jaguar.”
Comte de Lautréamont, poète
“Hélas! faut-il que l'amour, si doux en apparence, soit si tyrannique et si cruel à l'épreuve!”
Roméo et Juliette / Le Songe d'une nuit d'été
Roméo et Juliette, 1591
Othello
Roméo et Juliette / Le Songe d'une nuit d'été
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
en
The Tragical history of Hamlet, 1603
King Henry : We are no tyrant, but a Christian king,
Unto whose grace our passion is subject
As is our wretches fettered in our prisons.
en
Henry V, 1599
William Shakespeare: Citations en anglais
“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
Variante: We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Source: King Lear
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
Trinculo, Act II, scene ii.
Source: The Tempest (1611)
“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”
Richard, Act I, scene i.
Variante: Now is the winter of our discontent.
Source: Richard III (1592–3)
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
Source: King Henry V
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Contexte: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date
“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
Variante: O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet