William Shakespeare citations Page 2

“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”

William Shakespeare Henri V

Source: Henry V

“Have more than you show,
Speak less than you know.”

“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.”

“Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.”

Source: Hamlet

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

Source: Hamlet

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.”

William Shakespeare Le Marchand de Venise

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”

William Shakespeare livre Much Ado About Nothing

Balthazar, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

Source: Hamlet

“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

Source: Hamlet

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

Source: Henry IV, Part 2

“We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”

Source: Hamlet

“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Prospero, Act IV, scene i.
Source: The Tempest (1611)

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“What's past is prologue.”

Source: Hamlet

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Variante: Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

Source: Hamlet

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

Source: Hamlet

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Variante: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Source: Romeo and Juliet, Act II

“I defy you, stars.”

“in black ink my love may still shine bright.”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Source: Romeo and Juliet