“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.” - Macbeth
“When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.” - Much Ado About Nothing
Читать полностью…“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.” - Richard II
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…“Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass. Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness. I am a wise fellow, and which is more, an officer, and which is more, a householder, and which is more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina, and one that knows the law, go to . . . and one that hath two gowns, and everything handsome about him. Bring him away. O that I had been writ down an ass!” - Much Ado About Nothing
Читать полностью…“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.” - Richard II
Читать полностью…“Kent.
Where's the king?
Gent.
Contending with the fretful elements
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,
Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main,
That things might change or cease tears his white hair,
Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,
Catch in their fury and make nothing of
Strives in his little world of man to outscorn
The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.
This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,
The lion and the belly-pinched wolf
Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,
And bids what will take all.” - King Lear
“He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him. ” - King John
“Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?” - The Tragedy of Macbeth. by William Shakespear. to Which Are Added All the Original Songs.
“The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name such tricks hath strong imagination.”
Читать полностью…“How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over,
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!” - Julius Caesar
“O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?” - Sonnets
Читать полностью…“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.” - A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.” - Venus and Adonis
“Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Coral is far more red than her lips' red
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound
I grant I never saw a goddess go
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.” - Sonnets
“Words are easy, like the wind Faithful friends are hard to find.” - The Passionate Pilgrim
Читать полностью…“If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!” - Othello
“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
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.” - Romeo and Juliet
Читать полностью…“When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
(Ophelia)” - Hamlet
“What soilders whey-face?
The English for so please you.
Take thy face hence.” - Macbeth
“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile
Filths savour but themselves...” - King Lear
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.” - King Lear
“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York” - Richard III