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
“As merry as the day is long.”
Beatrice, Act II, scene i.
Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
Source: Hamlet
“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”
Source: The Tempest
“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”
Source: The Winter's Tale
“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.”
Enobarbus, Act II, scene ii.
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
Derived from A Midsummer Night's Dream on p. 269, Aphorisms from Shakespeare (1812), Capel Lofft, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, a book which rewrites in aphoristic form Shakespeare quotations, in this case the exchange between Hermia and Theseus: "I would my father look'd but with my eyes", "Rather your eyes must with his judgment look".
Misattributed
“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”
Othello, Act V, scene ii.
Othello (1603–4)
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.”
The Rape of Lucrece (1594).
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
Richard, Act V, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)
Speed, Act II, scene i.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)