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
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Hamlet (1600–1)
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
The Rape of Lucrece.
“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
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.”
Source: Sonnets (1609), CXVI
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
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
Misattributed
“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
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”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
Guiderius, Act IV, scene ii.
Cymbeline (1610)
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
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/
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?”
Macbeth, Act II, scene i.
Macbeth (1606)
Silvia, Act IV, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)