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 sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Hamlet (1600–1)
“That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”
The Rape of Lucrece.
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variante: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar
Variante: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet
Jaques, Act II, scene vii.
Variante: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
Puck, Act III, scene ii.
Variante: Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
Variante: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
Source: Measure for Measure
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
Dick the Butcher, Act IV, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
Source: King Henry VI, Part 2
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”
Source: Romeo and Juliet