William Shakespeare: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 13)

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.”

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”

“Thou art a very ragged Wart.”

“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”

“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

“Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

“Thought is free.”

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”