William Shakespeare: Frasi in inglese

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

William Shakespeare libro Romeo e Giulietta

Origine: Romeo and Juliet

“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.”

William Shakespeare Il mercante di Venezia

Prince of Morocco, reading Portia's note, Act II, scene vii; this is the source of the popular paraphrase "All that glitters is not gold."
Origine: The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)

“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”

Origine: Macbeth: Playgoer's Edition

“God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Origine: Julius Caesar

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Origine: Henry V

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Origine: Macbeth

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed…”

William Shakespeare libro Romeo e Giulietta

Origine: Romeo and Juliet

“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”

William Shakespeare Come vi piace

Origine: As You Like It

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”

Origine: Hamlet

“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Origine: Julius Caesar

“But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.”

Origine: Hamlet

“O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven”

William Shakespeare Come vi piace

Origine: As You Like It

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

William Shakespeare libro Romeo e Giulietta

Origine: Romeo and Juliet

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”

Origine: Hamlet

“If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!”

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

William Shakespeare Otello

Origine: Othello

“The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”

Origine: Hamlet

“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Origine: Julius Caesar