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
“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”
Source: The Winter's Tale
“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variante: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Source: Twelfth Night (1601)
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“My only love sprung from my only hate.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Source: As You Like It
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”
Variante: Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Source: Macbeth
“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
Source: Henry VIII
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor