William Shakespeare citations Page 7

“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.”

Source: Macbeth, Act I, scene iii.

“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet Grace must still look so.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”

Source: Macbeth

“And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.
BEATRICE
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.”

“In thy foul throat thou liest.”

“We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

“Be bloody bold and resolute.”

William Shakespeare Antoine et Cléopâtre

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”

Source: Macbeth

“I have Immortal longings in me.”

William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out.”

William Shakespeare Antoine et Cléopâtre

Variante: Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me
Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.”

William Shakespeare Henri V

Source: Henry V

“I have supped full with horrors.”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful”

Source: Macbeth

“The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night…”

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

William Shakespeare Le Marchand de Venise

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”

William Shakespeare Henri V

Source: Henry V, No Fear, Act 4 Scene 4

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”

Macbeth

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

William Shakespeare Antoine et Cléopâtre

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”

Variante: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
Source: Macbeth

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

William Shakespeare livre Much Ado About Nothing

Hero, Act III, scene i.
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (1598)

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Exit, pursued by a bear.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

Source: The Winter's Tale

“Oh, I am fortune's fool!”

William Shakespeare livre The Passionate Pilgrim

Source: The Passionate Pilgrim

“[Thine] face is not worth sunburning.”

William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

William Shakespeare Henri V

Source: Henry V