William Shakespeare: Frasi in inglese

“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.”

William Shakespeare libro Romeo e Giulietta

Origine: Romeo and Juliet

“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face for all occasions”

Variante: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Origine: King Henry VI, Part 3

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

Origine: King Henry VI, Part 3

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

Origine: Hamlet

“Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days”

“All is fair in love and war”

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”

“thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.”

“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”

William Shakespeare libro Romeo e Giulietta

Origine: Romeo and Juliet

“Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins”

William Shakespeare Il mercante di Venezia

Origine: The Merchant of Venice

“You must take your chance.”

William Shakespeare Il mercante di Venezia

Origine: The Merchant of Venice

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

“That deep torture may be called a hell,
When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”

Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“Nothing is really good or bad in itself — it’s all what a person thinks about it.”

William Shakespeare libro The Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece.

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variante: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Origine: Julius Caesar

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Variante: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Origine: Hamlet

“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

Origine: Hamlet