William Shakespeare: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 17)

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.”

“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with light weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.”

“Discretion is the better part of valor.”

“I am a man,
More sinn'd against than sinning.”

“It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.”

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”

“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not…”

“How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”

“One half of me is yours, the other half is yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”

“Educated men are so impressive!”

“If we shadows have offended,
Know but this and all is mended.
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear,
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding, but a dream.”

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.”

“Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?”

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”

“Blood will have blood.”

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”