William Shakespeare: Frasi in inglese (pagina 25)

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”

“But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."
Viola: "Thy reason, man?"
Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.”

“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!”

“Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.”

“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”

“By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.”

“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

“… and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.”

“I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

“A plague on both your houses.”

“I'll have no husband, if you be not he.”

“Clown: Good Madonna, why mournest thou?
Olivia: Good Fool, for my brother's death.
Clown:I think his soul is in hell, Madonna.
Olivia:I know his soul is in heaven, Fool.
Clown: The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven.”

“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”

“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”

“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead
…………
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.”

“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.”

“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
By self-example mayst thou be denied.”