William Shakespeare: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 7)
William Shakespeare war englischer Dramatiker, Lyriker und Schauspieler. Zitate auf Englisch.
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
Romeo, Act II, scene ii.
Variante: What light through yonder window breaks?
Quelle: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
Quelle: The Merchant of Venice
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
Quelle: Much Ado About Nothing
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Variante: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Quelle: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”
Quelle: Romeo and Juliet
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
Quelle: King Lear
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
Quelle: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
Quelle: The Merchant of Venice
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
Quelle: Richard III
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
Quelle: Romeo and Juliet
Shylock, Act III, scene i.
Quelle: The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)
Kontext: I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?