“Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated” - The Sonnets
“Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,—
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.” - Titus Andronicus
“This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs.” - The Merchant of Venice
Читать полностью…“If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.” - King Henry IV, Part 1
Читать полностью…“POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.
HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
POLONIUS By th'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 Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.” - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm” - Hamlet
Читать полностью…“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” - Romeo and Juliet
“This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline:
But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:
Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse: which I observing,
Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
But not intentively: I did consent,
And often did beguile her of her tears,
When I did speak of some distressful stroke
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story.
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used:
Here comes the lady let her witness it.” - Othello
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” - Romeo and Juliet
“All of Creation’s a farce.
Man was born as a joke.
In his head his reason is buffeted
Like wind-blown smoke.
Life is a game.
Everyone ridicules everyone else.
But he who has the last laugh
Laughs longest.”
“So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh them all. ” - Othello
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.” - Othello
Читать полностью…“Tis safter to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” - Macbeth
“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.” - Richard III
Читать полностью…“I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” - Macbeth
Читать полностью…“It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.” - As You Like It
Читать полностью…“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry
But were we burdened with light weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.” - The Comedy of Errors
“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven keep me in temper I would not be mad!” - King Lear
Читать полностью…“I talk of you:
Why did you wish me milder? would you have me
False to my nature? Rather say I play
The man I am.” - Coriolanus
“Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*” - Romeo and Juliet
“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.” - Hamlet
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