William Shakespeare: Frasi in inglese (pagina 15)
William Shakespeare era poeta inglese del XVI secolo. Frasi in inglese.“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
Variante: We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Origine: King Lear
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)”
Origine: Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”
Origine: Romeo and Juliet
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”
Origine: Twelfth Night
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
Trinculo, Act II, scene ii.
Origine: The Tempest (1611)
“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”
Richard, Act I, scene i.
Variante: Now is the winter of our discontent.
Origine: Richard III (1592–3)
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
Origine: King Henry V
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
Origine: Romeo and Juliet
“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
Origine: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Origine: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Contesto: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date
“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
Origine: The Taming of the Shrew
“Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
Variante: O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Origine: Romeo and Juliet
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”
Origine: Romeo and Juliet