Famous Shakespeare quotes. William Shakespeare quotes. on other topics

And verbosity is mortal embellishment.
Love is poor if it can be measured.
Poor wisdom is often the slave of rich stupidity.
The poor crushed insect suffers just like the dying giant.
Immorality does not achieve more than the truth.
Prudence is the best trait of courage.
Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. Love everyone, trust the elect, do no harm to anyone.
Desperate diseases are cured, and only desperate remedies.
The one who did not know the wounds jokes with the disease.
Great grief heals less.
Be true to yourself, and then just as surely as night follows day, loyalty to other people will follow.
Be courteous to everyone, but not infamous.
Be equal in everything; for in the current itself, in the storm and, I would say, in the whirlwind of passion, you must learn and observe the measure that would give it softness.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
It will pass into humility and meekness ...
In suffering, the only outcome is To the best of your ability not to notice adversity.
In the insensitive mind there is no place for jokes.
After all, to know a person well is to know yourself.
Great in desires are not powerful.
Great people often died at the hands of idlers.
The greatest offense that can be done to an honest person is to suspect him of being dishonest.
The whole world is a theater, in it women, men are all actors.
Eternal pleasure is tantamount to eternal deprivation.
To see and feel is to be, to think is to live.
You look at my children. My former freshness is alive in them. They are the justification for my old age.
Outer beauty is even more precious when it covers the inner. A book whose golden clasps close the golden content gains special respect.
Here a man died. I put him in the grave
And with him the good that he managed to do.
And we remember only what was bad in him.
The praise of the lost creates precious memories.
In nature, there are grains and dust.
Time passes differently for different people.
Time reveals what hides the folds of deceit.
Time is the mother and nurse of all good things.
All lovers swear to do more than they can and do not even do what is possible.
Every obstacle to love only strengthens it.
Where there are few words, they have weight.
Where friendship weakens, ceremonial politeness intensifies.
Stupidity and wisdom are as easily seized as contagious diseases. So choose your comrades.
Stupidity is the sharpener of the mind.
Rotten does not tolerate touch.
To the vile, both kindness and wisdom seem vile; dirt - only dirt to taste.
Grief leans harder if he notices that he is succumbing.
Bitter separation makes poor lovers decidedly dumb.
Thunders only what is empty inside.
You are trying so hard to judge the sins of others, start with your own and do not get to strangers.
Yes, the genus is the same, but the breed is different.
Even the oaths of lovers are worth no more than the oaths of innkeepers. Both hold up fake bills.
There is a particle of good in every evil, you just need to wisely extract it.
Virtue is courageous, and goodness never fears.
A good desire excuses a bad execution.
Kindness in a woman, not seductive looks will win my love.
Worthy is the one who knows how to courageously ... seek.
A friend should bear the shortcomings of a friend.
The fool thinks he is smart; the wise man knows that he is stupid.
Stupid cap brains do not spoil.
The heretic is not the one who burns at the stake, but the one who lights the fire.
If all those who have obstinate wives were to despair, then a tenth of mankind would hang themselves.
If there were no reason, we would be overwhelmed by sensuality. That's what the mind is to curb its absurdities.
If a sharp word left traces, we would all be soiled.
If you have tears, get ready to shed them.
Is there anything more monstrous than an ungrateful person?
There are many things in the world, friend Horatio, that our wise men never dreamed of.
Nature has both flour and chaff, both vile and charming.
Desire is the father of thought.
Human life is a fabric of good and bad threads.
To live only for oneself is an abuse.
For every thing in the world It is sweeter for us to chase than to have it.
Health is more valuable than gold.
Earth, nature's mother, is her own grave: What she gave birth to, she buried.
Strawberries also grow under nettles.
Evil is good, good is evil.
And the greatest oaths are straw when the fire burns in the blood.
And virtue itself does not escape the scratches of slander.
And a good person is unhappy sometimes.
Of all the low feelings, fear is the lowest.
Out of pity, I must be cruel.
Excessive care is the same curse of old people as carelessness is the grief of young people.
Excessive haste, just like slowness, leads to a sad end.
Sometimes we find consolation in the loss itself, and sometimes we bitterly mourn the gain itself.
Intrigue is the strength of the weak. Even a fool always has enough mind to do harm.
And nature must submit to necessity.
Truth loves to act openly.
True love cannot speak, because true feeling is expressed more by deed than by words.
True honesty often lives like a pearl in a dirty oyster shell.
How far the rays of a tiny candle reach! A good deed shines in the same way in a world of bad weather.
How often blindness saved us, where foresight only let us down.
What a strange fate that we sin the most precisely when we do too much good to others.
Stone fences cannot stop love.
Slander inflicts such wounds on the soul that nothing can heal them.
When friendship begins to weaken and cool, she always resorts to increased politeness.
When there is no joy, then there is hope
For future joy - also joy.
When you don't want to hear about the worst, It will fall on you inaudibly...
When the mind and passion argue in a tender body - out of ten in nine cases, passion will certainly prevail.
Whoever lacks a decisive will, lacks intelligence.
Whoever loves to be flattered is worth a flatterer.
Who shines, he will see better.
A liar knows how to hide behind a caress.
A light heart lives long.
A deceitful face will hide everything that an insidious heart has conceived.
The fox just needs to stick its muzzle in - the torso scurries after it.
Only that kind of love - love, Which is alien to the calculation.
Love everyone, trust the elect, do no harm to anyone.
Favorite work wakes up early, and we are happy to take on it.
Love flees from those who chase after it, and those who run away, throw themselves on the neck.
Love is omnipotent: there is no grief on earth - higher than its punishment, no happiness - higher than the pleasure of serving it.
Love does not reason; with wings and no eyes, she is the emblem of blind recklessness.
Love gives nobility even to those whom nature has denied it.
Love is stronger than the fear of death.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart; therefore blind and depict the winged Cupid.
Love and reason rarely live in harmony.
People are masters of their own destiny.
Little people become great when the great ones are translated.
Fashion wears out more clothes than a person.
It is natural for youth to sin in haste.
My honor is my life; both grow from the same root. Take away my honor and my life will be over.
Wise is the ignoramus who is devoid of wisdom, Than the sage who is hungry for ignorance.
Men look like April when they are courting, and December when they are already married.
Music drowns out sadness.
Music is terrible when there is no tact or measure in it.
Day after day we whisper: "Tomorrow, tomorrow" So with quiet steps life creeps To the last unfinished page.
We know what we are, but we don't know what we can be.
We pray for mercy, and this prayer should teach us to revere acts of mercy.
We ourselves are made of dreams And this little life of ours is surrounded by a dream...
The hope of enjoyment is almost as pleasant as the enjoyment itself.
Hope for joy is a little less than fulfilled pleasure.
Hope is the staff of love: set out armed with it against the suggestions of despair.
It is vain to think that a harsh tone is a sign of frankness and strength.
We are told by the harmony of the strings in the orchestra, That the lonely path is like death.
We are lit by the sky, as we are a torch - to shine on others; for if virtue is not radiated, it is the same as not having it.
Our personality is the garden, and our will is its gardener.
Our glory is created only by the opinion of the people.
Our doubts are our traitors. They make us lose what we could probably win if we weren't afraid to try.
Do not go to the same extremes in apologies as in insults.
Is it not the eternal mockery of love that a woman cannot love the one who loves her?
Do not give language to rash thoughts and do not carry out any rash thought.
Youth does not know the conscience of reproaches.
He does not love who trumpets about love to everyone.
Friendship is not fastened with the mind - it is easily terminated by stupidity.
Do not grab the wheel when it rolls down: you will break your neck in vain. Now, if it goes up, hold on to it: you yourself will be at the top.
Silent diamonds often act on the female mind more than any eloquence.
Uninvited guests are often pleasant only when they leave.
There is no sadder story in the world than the story of Romeo and Juliet.
In nothing do I find such happiness as in a soul that keeps the memory of my good friends.
Not a single vice is so simple as not to take on the appearance of virtue from the outside.
You will never find a woman without a ready answer, unless she is without a tongue.
Nothing is always equally good, because the good, becoming too full-blooded, will die from its own overabundance.
Nothing encourages vice so much as excessive indulgence.
New honors are like new dresses: they must be worn in order to fit well.
O women, your name is treachery!
It is useless to grieve about what is lost and lost irretrievably.
Oh, what a world where virtue destroys Those in whom it lives.
Oh fuck you! Loss after loss!
Deceit in contentment is more criminal than lying out of need, and deceit in kings is more vile than in beggars.
The common fate of all braggarts: sooner or later, but still you will certainly get into a mess.
Dress crime in gold - and the strong spear of justice will break without hurting; dress in sackcloth - a pygmy straw will also pierce him.
One look can kill love, one look can resurrect it.
Some are born great, others achieve greatness, others are forced into it.
One of the finest consolations that life offers us is that a person cannot sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Power is dangerous when conscience is at odds with it.
It is more dangerous and harmful to conceal love than to declare it.
Experience is acquired only by activity, improved by time.
Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.
From flattery swell vices, Like a flame from furs.
Something is rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Suspicion always lives in the soul of a criminal: every bush seems to be a detective to a thief.
Confirmation of the truth is never superfluous, even when all doubt is asleep.
With a southerly wind, I can still distinguish a falcon from a heron.
Nature will always take its toll.
Nature also teaches animals to know their friends.
The past is just a prologue.
Let them reproach you for your silence - they would not scold you only for your talkativeness.
The path of evil does not lead to good.
Let the blood that freezes over the years burns again in your heir. Leave your son, burying youth, He will meet the sun of tomorrow.
The work we do willingly heals pain.
Robber demands: purse or life. The doctor takes away both the wallet and the life.
An intelligent fool is better than a foolish sage.
It is childish to cry for fear of what is inevitable.
Jealous people do not need a reason: they are often jealous not at all about it, but because they are jealous.
Jealousy is a monster that both conceives and gives birth to itself.
A rose smells like a rose, whether you call it a rose or not.
Fish in the sea act like people on earth: the big ones eat the small ones.
The best thing is a direct and simple spoken word.
Self-love is not as condemnable as lack of self-respect.
Self-respect is never as vile as self-humiliation.
How much nobility, and yet a loafer!
Avarice clings to old age; love is for youth.
Follow the voice of the mind, not anger.
Tears are the weapon of women.
Words are always words.
Words of love become numb at parting.
The words of some hide the words of others.
Words are wind, and swear words are a draft that is harmful.
The advice of a friend is the best support against enemies.
Doubts are traitors: they often make us lose where we could win, preventing us from trying.
Sleep is nature's balm.
Fear is the constant companion of untruth.
The essence of law is humanity.
Happy is he who, hearing blasphemy against himself, can use it for correction.
Happiness without a helmsman leads other boats to the pier.
There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.
There is no such philosopher in the world,
To endure a toothache calmly,
Let him be like gods in words
In his contempt for troubles and suffering.
Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.
Triumph over conquered death.
The one that flatters low in happiness, Believe, in misfortune - will change.
The stupidity of fools is always the grindstone for wit.
Work that is pleasant to us heals grief.
It is difficult to intimidate a heart that is not stained by anything.
The coward dies at every danger that threatens him, but the brave man is overtaken by death only once.
For lovers, the clock usually runs forward.
Every madness has its own logic.
Love has no eyes at all.
Carried away by jealous suspicion, one can insult a completely innocent person.
Perseverance in evil does not destroy evil, but only increases it.
The success of a witty word depends more on the ear of the hearer than on the tongue of the speaker.
Tired - a hard stone that fluff; even fluff is cruel to lazy people.
Philosophy is sweet milk in adversity.
Love sought is good, even better - born without searching.
If you want to achieve the goal of your aspiration, ask more politely about the road you have lost.
Man is an animal striving to rise to the level of god, and most of our troubles are an inevitable side effect of efforts directed towards that.
The bitterer the past, the sweeter the present.
The fewer words, the more feelings there will be.
The stronger the passion, the sadder it ends.
The honor of a girl is all her wealth, it is more precious than any inheritance.
To become a victim, I must be guilty. Be a hundred times more enemies, Be every enemy a hundred times stronger, They won't be able to harm me, As long as I'm honest, faithful, innocent.
What does the title mean? “What we call a rose would smell just as good, whatever name you give it.
What is a person when he is busy only sleeping and eating? An animal, nothing more.
To appreciate someone's quality, you must have some share of this quality in yourself.
A plague on both your houses.
The jokes of significant people are always funny.
I'm tired of living, I'm full of this life and angry that the light is still standing.
I will never regret doing a good deed.
Rage is always a bad guard.

But wine evokes and repels lust, evokes desire, but prevents satisfaction. Therefore, a good drink, one might say, does nothing but distort the soul with debauchery: it excites and weakens, kindles and extinguishes, annoys and deceives, raises, but does not allow to stand.

Disease

The one who did not know the wounds jokes with the disease.

Politeness

Be courteous to everyone, but not infamous.

Loyalty

Be true to yourself, and then just as surely as night follows day, loyalty to other people will follow.

Wife

If all those who have obstinate wives were to despair, then a tenth of mankind would hang themselves.

Women

Silent diamonds often act on the female mind more than any eloquence.

You will never find a woman without a ready answer, unless she is without a tongue.

The ugliness of Satan is nothing compared to the evil ugliness of a woman!

Life

To see and feel is to be, to think is to live.

Human life is a fabric of good and bad threads.

Our life is one wandering shadow, a miserable actor who boasts for some hour on the stage, and then disappears without a trace; a tale told by a madman, full of sounds and fury and without any meaning.

Laws

The essence of law is humanity.

Health

Health is more valuable than gold.

Intrigue

Intrigue is the strength of the weak. Even a fool always has enough mind to do harm.

Lie

A deceitful face will hide everything that an insidious heart has conceived.

Love

Love is poor if it can be measured.

All lovers swear to do more than they can and do not even do what is possible.

Even the oaths of lovers are worth no more than the oaths of innkeepers. Both hold up fake bills.

True love cannot speak, because true feeling is expressed more by deed than by words.

Love flees from those who chase after it, and those who run away, throw themselves on the neck.

Is it not the eternal mockery of love that a woman cannot love the one who loves her?

One look can kill love, one look can resurrect it.

It is more dangerous and harmful to conceal love than to declare it.

Love sought is good, even better - born without searching.

People

Great people often died at the hands of idlers.

We know who we are, but we don't know who we can be.

Little people become great when the great ones are translated.

To appreciate someone's quality, you must have some share of this quality in yourself.

dreams

What is unrealizable for ordinary eyes,
With an inspired eye
We will understand easily in deep ecstasy.

Mercy

We pray for mercy, and this prayer should teach us to revere acts of mercy.

Silence

Let them reproach you for your silence - they would not scold you only for your talkativeness.

Wisdom

Poor wisdom is often the slave of rich stupidity.

Men

Men look like April when they are courting, and December when they are already married.

Nothing will stop from the disappearance of one - the only woman in the world, except the heart of one - the only man.

Music

If music is food for love, play it louder.

Hope

Hope is the staff of love.

Pleasure

Eternal pleasure is tantamount to eternal deprivation.

The hope of enjoyment is almost as pleasant as the enjoyment itself.

Wit

The success of a witticism depends on the ear of the listener, not on the tongue that said it.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

condemnation

You are so eager to judge the sins of others, start with your own and do not get to strangers.

Self-love is not as condemnable as lack of self-respect.

vices

Not a single vice is so simple as not to take on the appearance of virtue from the outside.

Honors

New honors are like new dresses: they must be worn in order to fit well.

A crime

Dress crime in gold - and the strong spear of justice will break without hurting; dress in sackcloth - a pygmy straw will also pierce him.

Nature

Earth, nature's mother, is her own grave: What she gave birth to, she buried.

Nature will always take its toll.

Fish in the sea act like people on earth: the big ones eat the small ones.

Prose

There is no sadder story in the world than the story of Romeo and Juliet.

conversations

Have more than you show. Talk less than you know.

Intelligence

An intelligent fool is better than a foolish sage.

Religion

The heretic is not the one who burns at the stake, but the one who lights the fire.

The words

Where there are few words, they have weight.

Words are always words.

Death

The coward dies at every danger that threatens him, but the brave man is overtaken by death only once.

Doubts

Our doubts are our traitors. They make us lose what we could probably win if we weren't afraid to try.

True honesty often lives like a pearl in a dirty oyster shell.

The senses

The fewer words, the more feelings there will be.

Youth

Youth does not know the conscience of reproaches.

on other topics

To be or not to be, that is the question.

I always considered knowledge and valor
Gifts that are much more precious
Than a noble birth and wealth.

Thunders only what is empty inside.

And it is easy for the best to turn into bad, And the lily, having withered, becomes manure.

Oh fuck you! Loss after loss!

A wonderful thought - to lie between the girl's legs.

Robber demands: purse or life. The doctor takes both the wallet and the life.

In striving for the best, we often spoil the good.

So sweet is honey that, finally, it is bitter. Too much taste kills the taste.

Triumph over conquered death.

It is difficult to intimidate a heart that is not stained by anything.

What does the name mean? A rose smells like a rose, whether you call it a rose or not.

A plague on both your houses.

Love is poor if it can be measured. ("Antony and Cleopatra", Antony)

The whole world is a theater, and the people in it are actors, they have their own exits, exits, and everyone plays more than one role. ("As You Like It", Jacques)

To see and feel is to be, to think is to live.

Time passes differently for different people. ("As You Like It", Rosalind)

After all, to know a person well is to know yourself. ("Hamlet")

All lovers swear to do more than they can and do not even do what is possible. ("Troilus and Cressida", Cressida)

There is nothing good or bad in the world - we ourselves came up with it all. ("Hamlet", act 2, scene 2)

Have more than you show. Talk less than you know. ("King Lear")

The fool thinks he is smart; the wise man knows that he is stupid. ("As You Like It", Touchstone)

Outer beauty is even more precious when it covers the inner. A book whose golden clasps close the golden content gains special respect. ("Romeo and Juliet", Capulet)

A rose smells like a rose, whether you call it a rose or not. ("Romeo and Juliet", Juliet)

True love cannot speak, because true feeling is expressed more by deed than by words.

What a strange fate that we sin the most precisely when we do too much good to others.

To be or not to be, that is the question. ("Hamlet")

If music is food for love, play it louder.

We know who we are, but we don't know who we can be. ("Hamlet", Ophelia)

We are lit by the sky, as we are a torch - to shine on others; for if virtue is not radiated, it is the same as not having it. ("Measure for Measure", Duke)

Hope is the staff of love.

An intelligent fool is better than a foolish sage.

There are many things in the world, friend Horatio, that our wise men never dreamed of. ("Hamlet")

Self-love is not as condemnable as lack of self-respect.

The coward dies at every danger that threatens him, but the brave man is overtaken by death only once.

Excessive care is the same curse of old people as carelessness is the grief of young people.

What is a person when he is busy only sleeping and eating? An animal, nothing more. ("Hamlet", Hamlet)

Excessive haste, just like slowness, leads to a sad end.

It is useless to grieve about what is lost and lost irretrievably.

One of the finest consolations that life offers us is that a person cannot sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Experience is acquired only by activity, improved by time.

To appreciate someone's quality, you must have some share of this quality in yourself.

Whoever loves to be flattered is worth a flatterer. ("Timon of Athens", Apemantus)

He does not love who trumpets about love to everyone.

Day after day we whisper: "Tomorrow, tomorrow" / So with quiet steps life creeps / To the last unfinished page. ("Macbeth", Macbeth)

Happy is he who, hearing blasphemy against himself, can use it for correction.

There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.

Triumph over conquered death. ("Sonnets")

Be true to yourself, and then just as surely as night follows day, loyalty to other people will follow. ("Hamlet", Polonius)

Time is the mother and nurse of all good things. ("Two Veronians", Proteus)

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.

Our personality is the garden, and our will is its gardener.

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Love sayings

The tragedy "Romeo and Juliet" is one of the most famous works in the world, part of the school curriculum in many countries, and a popular object of film adaptations. Almost all of the playwright's plays are permeated with the theme of love passions. Among the most famous quotes from William Shakespeare are the following:

"Love is weaker than the fear of death."
"Love and reason rarely live in harmony."
"Love is blind" (a popular variation is "Love is blind and imbecile").
"The stronger the passion, the sadder the end."
"Love runs away from those who chase after it. And those who run away - throw themselves on the neck."
"Love's words become numb at parting."
"Love cannot be stopped by stone walls."

Statements about love (especially unhappy or unrequited) were at the peak of popularity in the 19th century, when the strict mores of decency forced people to use allegories, and love correspondence sometimes resembled a cipher.

Aphorisms about life, feelings and death

The playwright is a master of "turning out" human nature, showing the innermost, exaggerating emotions, showing ugly manifestations of feelings. Many of William Shakespeare's quotes about life have become a kind of motto or motivation. Especially widely known is the saying: "Do what you must, and let it be what will be."

"Follow the voice of reason, not anger."
"Pleasant work heals grief."
"Fear is the lowest of the senses."
"Youth often sins with haste."
"People are masters of their own destiny."
"To catch happiness, you need to learn how to run fast."

Shakespeare, being the creator of cult plays and the ruler of thoughts, was able to talk about death in beautiful words. His dramas told about the end of life, without causing viewers and readers to feel overwhelming hopelessness. The most famous aphorism on this subject is: "If the sickle is inexorable to death, leave it to posterity - let them argue with it!"

It is impossible to ignore the reasoning and quotes of William Shakespeare about human nature:

"Power is dangerous when conscience is at odds with it."
"Tears are the weapon of women."
"Arrogance is a flimsy material."
"Virtue does not escape the scratches of slander."

and religion

William Shakespeare's quotes, known to a wide range of people, contain almost no mention of God, faith and religion. However, the playwright was distinguished by a decent religiosity for the 16th century. In his works, the characters cry out to God, their actions are permeated with spirituality. Shakespeare also devoted some of his sonnets to religion. And not only Christian, but also ancient (sonnet No. 153 "God Cupid"). Among the most famous sayings:

"Ignorance is the curse of God. Knowledge is the wings that carry us to heaven."
"The devil is able to quote Scripture for his own purposes."
2God did not have time to create a dozen women, as the devils of the heels have already seduced.

Shaspira's idioms and features of translation

In his works, the playwright often uses idioms - phrases whose meaning is clear only to native speakers. So when translating some works, one has to use expressions similar in meaning or even remove idioms from the text.

It was Greek to me (the tragedy "Julius Caesar", 1599) - can be translated as "you cannot understand something, because it sounds like a foreign language." The closest in meaning is "Chinese letter".

In a pickle (the play "The Tempest") - it is absolutely impossible to translate into Russian, because its meaning is to describe the state: "To be in a situation where you feel like a vegetable placed in a marinade, shriveled and salted."

Compared to Russian, the playwright's native language is too static, and therefore William Shakespeare's English translation sounds different. It all depends on the translator and the context. But regardless of the place of words in the statement, their meaning remains the same.