William Shakespeare: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 30)

“death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns”

“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.”

“What's his offense?
Groping for trout in a peculiar river.”

“But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"
Catherine: "I cannot tell."
Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.”

“Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we
For such as we are made of, such we be”

“Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.”

“All of Creation’s a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.”

“Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Her ashes new-create another heir
As great in admiration as herself.”

“Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues."

[Stage direction, ]”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.”

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our means secure us, and our mere defects
prove our commodities.”

“I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.”

“His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.”

“Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

-Posthumus Leonatus
Act V, Scene V”

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence”

“In such business
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant
More learned than the ears.”

“But she makes hungry
Where she most satisfies…”

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”