William Shakespeare: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 31)

“I have drunk and seen the spider.”

“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

“Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

“Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.”

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.”

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”

“So quick bright things come to confusion.”

“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”

“For who so firm that cannot be seduced?”

“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

“LEONATO
Neighbours, you are tedious.

DOGBERRY
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.”

“for Mercutio's soul
Is but a little way above our heads,
Staying for thine to keep him company:
Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.”

“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

“Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”

“If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.”