William Shakespeare: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 14)

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”

“What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?”

“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”

“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”

“Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”

“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”

“So fair and foul a day I have not seen.”

“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

- Romeo”

“I am very proud, revengeful,
ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in.”

“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?”

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I lov'd her that she did pity them”

“One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Iago”

“Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.”