William Shakespeare: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 12)

“Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio: And so did I.
Romeo: Well, what was yours?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.
Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.”

“All things are ready, if our mind be so.”

“love is blind
and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit”

“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”

“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;”

“Now I will believe that there are unicorns…”

“There's small choice in rotten apples.”

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.”

“All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

“The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.”

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”

“O, full of scorpions is my mind!”

“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”