William Shakespeare: Frasi in inglese (pagina 19)

“O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

“What a fool honesty is.”

“You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”

“Good wombs have borne bad sons."
-- (Miranda, I:2)”

“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

“Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.”

“A little more than kin, a little less than kind.”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”

“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not like her name.

ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”

“Let me have men about me that are fat… Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

“I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”

“In jest, there is truth.”

“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of true love never did run smooth.”

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Goblin, lead them up and down”

“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.
-Benedick (Much Ado)”