Citazioni di William Shakespeare

Good wine needs no bush.

William Shakespeare · As You Like It. Epilogue.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

L’amore non vede cogli occhi del corpo, ma con quelli dell’anima, ed ecco perchè l’alato Cupido è dipinto cieco;

William Shakespeare · A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.

The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.

For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare · Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

William Shakespeare · As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

William Shakespeare · Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare · Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 1.

For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.

William Shakespeare · A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

William Shakespeare · Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

William Shakespeare · Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.

A young man married is a man that 's marr'd.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare · Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare · Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.

I am sure care 's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare · Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare · Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1.

He must needs go that the devil drives.

William Shakespeare · All's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.

For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare · King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.

William Shakespeare · Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2.