William Shakespeare: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 16)

“And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”

“I do feel it gone,
But know not how it went”

“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!”

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I.
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”

“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”

“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.”

“Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.”

“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“They do not love, that do not show their love.”

“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.”

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.”

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”

“I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.”