“Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream” - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Читать полностью…“I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.
List, list, O list!” - Hamlet
“Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For suff’rance is the badge of all our tribe You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help Go to, then you come to me, and you say ‘Shylock, we would have moneys.’ You say so: You that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold moneys is your suit. What should I say to you? Should I not say ‘Hath a dog money? Is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?’ Or Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, Say this:— ‘Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last You spurn’d me such a day another time You call’d me dog and for these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much moneys?” - The Merchant of Venice
Читать полностью…“The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings
But mercy is above this sceptred sway
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.” - The Merchant of Venice
“A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
Читать полностью…“My grief lies all within and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.” - Richard II
Читать полностью…“So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing. I am yours for the walk and especially when I walk away.” - Much Ado About Nothing
Читать полностью…“The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die” - The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.” - The Comedy of Errors
Читать полностью…“And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare
Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14”
“SONNET 43
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. ” - Sonnets
“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?” - Much Ado About Nothing
Читать полностью…“So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly it strikes where it doth love.” - Othello
Читать полностью…“He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.” - Troilus and Cressida
Читать полностью…“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.” - Hamlet
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can
reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself
scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,
friendship falls off, brothers divide: in
cities, mutinies in countries, discord in
palaces, treason and the bond cracked 'twixt son
and father. This villain of mine comes under the
prediction there's son against father: the king
falls from bias of nature there's father against
child. We have seen the best of our time:
machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our
graves. Find out this villain, Edmund it shall
lose thee nothing do it carefully. And the
noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his
offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.” - King Lear