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
“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
Iago, Act II, scene iii.
Source: Othello (1603–4)
“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
Source: King Lear
Variante: Life... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Source: Macbeth
“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”
Source: Twelfth Night
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
Variante: My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Source: Macbeth
“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”
Source: Measure for Measure
“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
Source: Othello
“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”
Source: Measure for Measure