William Shakespeare: Frasi in inglese (pagina 20)

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”

“And nothing is, but what is not.”

“And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.”

“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”

“Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion”

“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

“The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.”

“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”

“Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.”

“The world must be peopled!”

“It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant

(Isabella)”

“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should
sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”

“true apothecary thy drugs art quick”

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”