“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity fools by
heavenly compulsion knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star.” - King Lear
“Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
“Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.”
Читать полностью…“Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)” - Julius Caesar
“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.” - Othello
Читать полностью…“Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.” - Hamlet
“O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” - Romeo and Juliet
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.” - The Merchant of Venice
Читать полностью…“Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.” - Much Ado About Nothing
Читать полностью…“To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...” - Hamlet
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Читать полностью…“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.” - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Читать полностью…“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life” - Hamlet
“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…“All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,
That I, being governed by the watery moon,
May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world.” - Richard III
“...for the eye sees not itself,
but by reflection, by some other things.” - Julius Caesar
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” - The Merchant of Venice
Читать полностью…“Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life” - Hamlet
Читать полностью…“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
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” - Hamlet
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