William Shakespeare's phrases, aphorisms celebrated by the works with over one hundred quotes from this great English playwright and writer, popular in life and even more famous after his death.
Shakespeare's aphorisms
- Crazy is the man who speaks to the moon. Those who don't listen to it are foolish.
- Things without remedy should also be without interest.
- Who are you who, stepping into the dark of night, stumble over my most secret thoughts?
- Love must not be painted blind, but self-love.
- There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horace, than you dream of your philosophy.
- Time advances at a different pace with different people. I will tell you with whom time is changing, with whom time is trotting, with whom time is galloping, and with who stands still.
- Love flees like a shadow the real love that pursues it, chasing those who flee it, fleeing those who pursue it.
- Pleasure and revenge are more deaf than snakes at the voice of a just decision.
- All men know how to give advice and comfort to the pain they don't feel.
- Beware of jealousy, my lord! It is a green-eyed monster that taunts the meat it feeds on.
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- All the days are nights for me, until I see you, and bright days are the nights when you appear to me in a dream.
- Who has no money, means and peace, lacks three good friends.
- See how he puts his cheek on his hand: Oh, I could have been the glove of that hand and thus be able to touch that cheek!
- Lovers have, like madmen, such an excitable brain and such a fruitful fantasy, that they see far more things than cold reason can later explain.
- What's in a name? What we call by the name of rose, even if we call it by another name, would still retain the same sweet scent.
- When the law cannot assert its rights, at least make it legitimate that the law does not prevent you from inflicting wrong.
- A drop of evil is enough to cast a shady shadow over any virtue.
- When true love, even the most commonplace of suspicions inspires fear; and if the fear grows, love follows it, burning impetuously.
- You are the best part of myself, the clear mirror of my eyes, the depth of the heart, nourishment, luck, the object of all my hopes, the only sky of my land, the paradise I aspire to.
- Cowards die many times before their death. The brave man has the experience of death only once. Of all the wonders I have heard to date, the strangest seems to me that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end. It will come when it has to arrive.
- From now on you call me "Love", and I will no longer be Romeo for you, because you will have renamed me so.
- The general's wife is the general's general.
- As long as we can say: "this is the worst", it means that the worst can still come.
- Madness, sir, goes around the world like the sun, and there is no place where it does not shine.
- Love everyone, believe few and don't hurt anyone.
- If kisses were the only pleasure that the bed can give, a woman would always want another woman to marry.
- There has never been a philosopher who could patiently endure toothache.
- Speaking for virginity means accusing your mother.
- If you don't remember that Love has ever made you commit the smallest madness, then you have not loved.
- The wise man knows he is stupid, he is the fool who believes he is wise.
- Luck also drives unguided ships into the harbor.
- On the light wings of love I climbed over these walls. Love is not afraid of stone obstacles. Love when it tends to something, it is daring and ready.
- Live to be the wonder and admiration of your time.
- The fault, dear Brutus, is not the stars, but ours, that we are subordinates.
- Those friends you have and whose friendship you have tested, cling to your soul with steel hooks.
- Do not be afraid of greatness: some are born great, some conquer it and some receive it from above.
- And any anguish that now seems deadly, compared to losing you, will not seem the same.
- The best part of courage is discretion.
Quotes of Shakespeare
- We are made of the matter of which dreams are made; and in the space and time of a dream our short life is enclosed.
- Unicorns can be misled by trees; bears by means of mirrors; elephants by means of holes; lions by means of nets, and men, finally, by means of flattery.
- When you are no longer part of me, I will cut many small stars from your memory, then the sky will be so beautiful that the whole world will fall in love with the night.
- Those who shorten their lives by twenty years, also shorten the fear of death.
- The madman, the lover and the poet are composed only of fantasy.
- He who loves you does not love you, but he who loves and is silent loves you.
- Love, love madly, love as much as you can and if they tell you that it is a sin, love your sin and you will be innocent.
- You will be tired of love, because you have been walking in my head all day.
- Give up your power to attract me and I will give up my will to follow you.
- But when I think of you, my dear friend, what was lost is found, and all pain ends.
- I don't want a rose at Christmas any more than the snow in May may wish: I like everything that ripens when it's season.
- Men always die and worms destroy them, but love is not destroyed.
- Goodnight, goodnight! Separating is such a sweet pain, which I will say goodnight until it is morning.
- And every anguish that now seems deadly, in the face of losing you, will not seem equal.
- I could be locked in a nutshell and still consider myself King of an infinite space, if it were not for having bad dreams.
- We are to the gods what flies are to a capricious boy: they kill us for fun.
- Love looks not with the eyes but with the soul.
- The man who has no music within himself, who does not feel moved by the harmony of sweet sounds, was born of betrayal, of deception, of robberies.
- We know what we are but not what we could be.
- Ah! How bitter it is to look at happiness through another's eyes!
- Life is a shadow that walks, a poor actor who agitates and struts his hour on stage and then nothing is known about it. It is a story narrated by an idiot, full of rattles and fury, meaning nothing.
- You have never seen a beautiful woman who didn't grimace in front of a mirror.
- It's all the fault of the moon, when it gets too close to the earth it drives everyone crazy.
- Order is the virtue of the mediocre.
- What a terrible epoch when idiots rule blind people.
- The devil knows how to quote Sacred Scripture for his purposes.
- I consider the world for what it is: a stage where everyone must play their part.
- When sorrows arrive, they do not arrive as single spies, but in battalions.
- Give words to your pain otherwise your heart will break.
- The actions of the wicked cannot escape the eyes of men. With all its effort the earth cannot hide them.
- Love is not Love if it changes when it discovers a change or tends to fade when the other moves away.
- If one spent a whole year on vacation, having fun would be as stressful as working.
- He who has never been injured laughs at scars.
- Yet it does not seem to me a pity to cheat the one who hopes to win by cheating.
- Violent joys have violent ends, and die in their triumph, like fire and gunpowder, which are consumed on the first kiss. The most exquisite honey becomes cloying by its own sweetness, and just tasting it to get rid of it. Therefore love moderately: love that lasts does so.
- Even if you were chaste as ice, and pure as snow, you would not escape slander for this.
- Over time we end up hating what we often fear.
- Few love to hear about the sins they love to commit.
Shakespeare phrases
- How much crueler is the ingratitude of a child than the bite of a snake.
- How far the rays of a small candle go: so a good action shines in an evil world.
- Glory is similar to a circle in the water that is always expanding, until when its own enlargement resolves into nothingness.
- The world is a beautiful prison.
- When there is no longer a remedy, it is useless to grieve, because you can now see the worst that was attached to hope before. Crying over a past evil is the safest way to attract new evils. When luck takes away what cannot be preserved, one must be patient: it turns its offense into a hoax.The robbed who smiles, steals something from the thief, but whoever cries for a vain pain, steals something from himself.
- Ah, it's excellent to have the strength of a giant, but to use it as a giant is tyranny!
- Silence is the most perfect herald of joy: I would be very unhappy if I were able to say how much.
- Heretic will be the one who lights the stake, not the one who will burn inside you!
- You are not without ambition, but you lack the cruelty that must accompany it.
- The dying man settles all the debts.
- Looks like the innocent flower, but be the snake under it.
- I dare what is human; those who dare more are not men.
- If love is blind all the better: it accords with the night.
- Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
- There are daggers in men's smiles.
- Our bodies are our gardens of which our wills are the gardeners.
- Yet I want nothing else but what I already have; my heart, like the sea, is without limits; and again like the sea my love is profound: the more I give you the more I have, because both are infinite.
- Brevity is the soul of hindsight, and speaking too much an outward frill.
- Love is a vaporous mist formed by sighs; if it dissolves, it is fire that sparkles sparkling in the eyes of lovers; has hindered, it is a sea fed by the tears of the lovers themselves. What else is it? A secret madness, gall that strangles and sweetness that heals.
- The love of young people is not in the heart, but in the eyes.
- Beauty tempts thieves more than gold.
- You commit the oldest of sins in the newest way.
- Love runs to meet love with the joy with which schoolchildren escape from their books; but the love that must separate from love has the sad face of schoolchildren when they return to school.
- Beauty tempts thieves more than gold.
- With the wings of love I flew beyond the walls, because there can be no limits to love and what love wants love dares.
- If it is a sin to be greedy for honor, then I will be the most sinful soul in this world.
- Who has a beard is more than a young man, and who has no beard is less than a man.
- Beauty alone is enough to persuade men's eyes, without the need for speakers.
- If you prick us, don't we bleed, and if you tickle us, don't we laugh? If you poison us, don't we die? And if you do us wrong, won't we take revenge?
- Minor vices are shown through tattered clothes: ceremonial clothes and furs hide them all.
- Misfortune is an hour a day.
- If doing was as easy as knowing what should be done, the chapels would be churches and the hovels of the poor princely palaces.
- Because the truth is the truth, always the same, to infinity.
