“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack. The round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets
And citizens to their dens. The death of Anthony
Is not a single doom, in the name lay
A moiety of the world.” - Antony and Cleopatra
“I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him a man cannot swear but it checks him a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.” - Richard III
Читать полностью…“Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man
But will they come, when you do call for them?” - King Henry IV, Part 1
“O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!” - The Tempest
“When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.” - Much Ado About Nothing
Читать полностью…“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
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep
No more and, by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub.” - Hamlet
“And to be merry best becomes you for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.
BEATRICE
No, sure, my lord, my mother cried but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.” - Hamlet
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…“Then others for breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”
“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