William Shakespeare: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 4)

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

“Love is merely a madness.”

“Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!
And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

“For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?”

“For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.”

“We burn daylight.”

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

“If there is a good will, there is great way.”

“Take pains. Be perfect.”

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”

“For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”

“Give me my sin again.”