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.
“Puis-je aller plus loin quand mon coeur est ici?”
William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette
Romeo and Juliet
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
“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
“Dicen que un porqué tiene un para qué.”
William Shakespeare La Comédie des erreurs
The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette
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.
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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.
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Henry V, 1599
William Shakespeare: Citations en anglais
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Antony, Act III, scene ii.
Julius Caesar (1599)
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
William Shakespeare Hamlet
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Hamlet (1600–1)
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
William Shakespeare livre The Rape of Lucrece
The Rape of Lucrece.
“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Bedford, Act I, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”
Derived from a longer quote in Henry V, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
Misattributed
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”
William Shakespeare livre Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Sonnets (1609), CXVI
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Alençon, Act III, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).
Truly from Seneca the Younger, in De Ira, Book III, Chapter V:
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.
Misattributed
This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar, as well as to Shakespeare's play on his assassination and its aftermath, but there are no records of it prior to late 2000. It has been debunked at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm <br class="br">Misattributed
“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
William Shakespeare livre The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
William Shakespeare Timon of Athens
Flavius, Act IV, scene ii.
Timon of Athens (1605)
“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
William Shakespeare Cymbeline
Guiderius, Act IV, scene ii.
Cymbeline (1610)
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Richard of Gloucester, Act V, scene vi.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Not by Shakespeare, but from Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, a 1993 self-help book by David S. Viscott.
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/16/purpose-gift/
William Shakespeare livre Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, II. Not to be confused with The Sonnets; this poem is not a sonnet
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”
William Shakespeare Macbeth
Macbeth, Act II, scene i.
Macbeth (1606)
William Shakespeare Henry IV
Feeble, Act III, scene ii.
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)
William Shakespeare Richard III
Richard, Act III, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Silvia, Act IV, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
“Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”
Source: King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 369
