Shakespeare - winged expressions. William Shakespeare - quotes, aphorisms, sayings, phrases The most famous Shakespeare quotes

"To be, or not to be: that is the question..." ("To be or not to be - that is the question") is one of the most famous expressions in world literature. So famous that, probably, even those who have not read the tragedy "Hamlet" by W. Shakespeare know this quote and use it in speech. Let's also touch the pearl of English literature - the playwrights of William Shakespeare.

Quotes from plays by William Shakespeare

Almost all of Shakespeare's plays can be parsed into quotes that are relevant today. Let us recall some of the well-known Shakespearean expressions that have firmly entered the Russian language.

"Brevity is the soul of wit" ("Hamlet") - a famous quote from "Hamlet" with a literal translation "Brevity is the soul of the mind". It was Shakespeare who first expressed this idea in his play on behalf of Lord Polonius. And later, A.P. Chekhov, in a letter to his brother Alexander, writes "Brevity is the soul of wit". This quote has become very popular, and in Russian literature it is Chekhov's name that is associated with one of the most famous sayings about brevity. But we remember Shakespeare's expression “Brevity is the soul of wit” which is the original source.

"Frailty, your name is woman!" ("Hamlet")“O women, your name is treachery!” This phrase was spoken by Hamlet when he was angry with his mother Gertrude because she married Claudius immediately after the death of his father. Thus, in his own words, Hamlet attributes the weakness, the moral instability of one woman to all women in general. Frailty [ˈfreɪl.ti] - fragility, weakness.

“Love is blind”- "Love is blind". This expression was first used by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales (circa 1405). But then this phrase did not become widely known and did not appear again in print until Shakespeare used it in several of his plays, including "Two Veronese", "Henry V" and "The Merchant of Venice". So, thanks to Shakespeare, the expression "Love is blind" became very popular and frequently used.

"Though this be madness, yet there is a method in it" ("Hamlet" ) — « Though it's crazy, it has consistency.". And these words are spoken by Polonius in response to the insane, incomprehensible speech of Prince Hamlet. In modern English this phrase is used as an idiom "There's a method in my (or somebody's) madness", which means that if someone is behaving strangely (crazy), then there is a reason for this.

Shakespearean idioms

It's Greek to me - means that you don’t know or don’t understand something, it’s like an unfamiliar foreign language for you. Russian equivalent - “This is Chinese writing for me”. The phrase originally appeared in Latin "Graecum est, non legitur" ("This is Greek, it cannot be read"). The fact is that in the Middle Ages, clerks in monasteries marked with this phrase those places in the Greek text that they could not translate. This phrase entered the English language thanks to Shakespeare and his tragedy "Julius Caesar" (1599) - "It was Greek to me" . This expression was also used by the English playwright Thomas Dekker.

"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" ("Othello") These are lines from Shakespeare's Othello. To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve means not to hide, not to restrain emotions, literally "to wear a heart on the sleeve." The origin of this idiom is associated with an interesting medieval custom. During jousting tournaments, the knights, as a sign of their devotion, tied a ribbon on their arm, which was given to them by their lady of the heart. Thus, the knights openly told everyone about their affection. It was Shakespeare who recorded this expression in this meaning in his Othello.

"The world is my oyster" ("The Merry Wives of Windsor") - a very unusual phrase that means "There are many different opportunities in the world", and in order to achieve something in life, you need to grab every opportunity. An oyster with a pearl inside symbolizes wealth, prosperity. This idiom first appeared in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Sir Falstaff refuses to lend money to Pistol, who responds with the famous phrase "Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open".

"In a Pickle" ("The Tempest") - a very original idiom, which is often associated with the name of William Shakespeare, since he was one of the first to use this expression in his play The Tempest. In modern English be in a pickle means "to be in trouble, in a predicament." In a pickle(literally "in brine, in the marinade") - means "in a trouble (in trouble)". If we go back, we find that the word "pickle" comes from the Dutch word "pekel" - pickle (a spicy salty vinegar used to pickle vegetables). It is most likely that the value in a pickle“in trouble” came from there: to be a difficult situation, like vegetables that got into the brine, mixed up and completely disoriented. But it is also obvious that in Shakespeare this expression means "to be in a state of intoxication, that is, to be in a deplorable state" (pickled - pickled, salty, drunk). This can be seen from the context in which this phrase is used:

Alonso: How camest thou in this pickle? (in modern English "How did you get so drunk?")
Trinculo: I have been in such a pickle, since I saw you last, …

Note that the idioms given above are very original. At the same time, they are widely used in modern English. I hope that you will also begin to use them in your speech, not forgetting to whom we owe these wonderful expressions.

Having known the taste of true love, I am forced to admit that kings are very poor. And let me remain incomprehensible.

There is no barrier in this world that sincere love would not be able to overcome. - William Shakespeare

There is no greater harmony in the world than the soft sound of the voice of love. She is able to appease anyone, even the gods.

Sincere feelings cannot be expressed openly in words. If you talk to everyone about them, then the door of your soul is closed.

W. Shakespeare: Lovers are often no better than innkeepers: both of them seal false bills with their oaths.

In separation, real feelings only grow stronger, feigned ones fade away.

To know real happiness and sorrow in this life is possible only by falling in love and being abandoned.

A person who says that he does not really show his feelings and does not love, because it is impossible not to express feelings that overwhelm you with deeds.

Separated against their will, lovers seem to be irretrievably speechless.

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

Avarice clings to old age; love is for youth.

Love is poor if it can be measured.

Words of love become numb at parting.

We know what we are, but know not what we may become

A woman will throw herself into fire and into water in pursuit of a tender heart. – A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

One look can kill love, one look can resurrect it. (Venus and Adonis)

Love is the spirit of fire. – Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.

Love gives nobility even to those whom nature has denied it.

Love is beautiful like sunshine after rain.

The flow of true love is never completely smooth. – The course of true love never did run smooth.

They do not love that do not show their love.

When I see you I fall in love and you smile because you know. – When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

Love is the most beautiful dream and the worst nightmare. – Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.

I was born under stars that danced. – There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Now join your hands, and with them, your hearts. – Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

In the face I see honor, truth and loyalty. – In thy face I see honor, truth and loyalty.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the heart; therefore blind and depict the winged Cupid. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Elena)

A friend is a person who knows who you are, understands where you've been, accepts who you'll become, and still hasn't killed you. – A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.

Therefore, dear, I love him as he is, I will overcome all deaths. But without it, life is not life. – So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

It is more dangerous and harmful to conceal love than to declare it. (Hamlet, Polonius)

She looks like a pure morning rose bathed in dew.

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

My heart is always at your service. – My heart is ever at your service.

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

Love flees from those who chase after it, and those who run away, throw themselves on the neck. (Merry Wives of Windsor, Ford)

Love is not love
If it changes, detecting changes,
Oh no! She is an eternal sign
Who looks like a storm but never shakes.
It's a star for the wandering bark
Whose value is unknown, although whose height is achievable.
love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or Bends with the remover to remove.
Oh no! It is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark,
whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Meaningful love is good, but unconscious love is better. – Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love is the smoke that rises with the power of sighs
Purified fire sparkling in the eyes of lovers
An annoyed ocean, drunk with their tears.
But what else? The most prudent madness
Well-preserved sweetness.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Your beautiful face
World of earthly blessings for my soul,
Since the language of love unites our thoughts.
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
A world of earthly blessings to my soul,
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

Doubt that the stars burn;
Doubt that the sun moves in a circle;
Doubt the truth, which may be a lie;
But never doubt what I love.
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

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

They love because love is for two,
Though its essence is one;
Two different, but without dividing.
So they love as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distinct, divisions none.

One half of me is yours, the other half of me is
My own; but if mine is yours,
Then I'm all yours!
One half of me is yours, the other half of yours-
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours!

This is my love - I belong to you
Therefore, I will take anything.
Such is my love, to thee I so belong,
That for your right myself will bear all wrong.

For me, my dear friend, you will never grow old.
'Cause I always look into your eyes
And in them I still see your beauty.
To me, fair friend, you can never be old.
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.

Can you compare to a summer day?
Your charm is more beautiful and sweeter:
Rough winds shake the precious buds of May,
And summer days are not long at all.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease had all too short a date.

Like a daylight lamp; her eyes are in heaven
Penetrate through the spheres so brightly
That the birds will sing at night, as if during the day.
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.

William Shakespeare was born April 23, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. English playwright and poet, one of the most famous playwrights in the world. Died April 23, 1616, Stratford.

Aphorisms, quotes, sayings Shakespeare William

Music drowns out sadness.
Desire is the father of thought.
Health is more valuable than gold.
A light heart lives long.
People are masters of their own destiny.
Love is stronger than the fear of death.
Great grief heals less.
Follow the voice of the mind, not anger.
In the insensitive mind there is no place for jokes.
Rotten does not tolerate touch.
Words of love become numb at parting.
Truth loves to act openly.
Where there are few words, they have weight.
Time passes differently for different people.
Fear is the constant companion of untruth.
Poor is love if it can be measured.
An intelligent fool is better than a foolish sage.
Philosophy is sweet milk in misfortune.
And the good arguments must yield to the best.
Time is the mother and nurse of all good things.
The advice of a friend is the best support against enemies.
He does not love who trumpets about love to everyone.
And nature must submit to necessity.
To live only for oneself is an abuse.
The fewer words, the more feelings there will be.
It is natural for youth to sin in haste.
Of all the low feelings, fear is the lowest.
Power is dangerous when conscience is at odds with it.
It is difficult to intimidate a heart that is not stained by anything.
Every obstacle to love only strengthens it.
A true friend is faithful everywhere, in happiness and trouble.
Whoever loves to be flattered is worth a flatterer.
The best thing is a direct and simple spoken word.
The work we do willingly heals pain.
There is no complete happiness without an admixture of suffering.
To see and feel is to be, to think, to live.
Whoever lacks a decisive will, lacks intelligence.
Be courteous to everyone, but not infamous.
It is childish to cry for fear of what is inevitable.
Is there anything more monstrous than an ungrateful person?
Our personality is the garden, and our will is its gardener.
Grief leans harder if he notices that he is succumbing.
Jealousy is a monster that both conceives and gives birth to itself.
Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.
Words are wind, and swear words are a draft that is harmful.
Friendship is not fastened with the mind - it is easily terminated by stupidity.
Brevity is the soul of the mind, and verbosity is mortal embellishment.
Only a true friend can tolerate his friend's weaknesses.
The praise of the lost creates precious memories.
Hope for joy is a little less than fulfilled pleasure.
If the sickle is relentless in death, leave descendants to argue with it!
The honor of a girl is all her wealth, it is more precious than any inheritance.
Kindness in a woman, not seductive looks will win my love.
In suffering, the only way out is to ignore adversity to the best of your ability.
Self-respect is never as vile as self-humiliation.
It is useless to grieve about what is lost, and irretrievably lost.
Earth, nature's mother, is her own grave: what she gave birth to, she buried.
Arrogance is a fragile material: it shrinks like a washed cloth.
What is a person when he is busy only sleeping and eating? An animal, nothing more.
If a sharp word left traces, we would all be soiled.
Do not go to the same extremes in apologies as in insults.
Love gives nobility even to those whom nature has denied it.
Intrigue is the strength of the weak, even fools are smart enough to do harm.
Happy is he who, hearing blasphemy against himself, can use it for correction.
To the vile, both kindness and wisdom seem vile; dirt - only dirt to taste.
Excessive care is the same curse of old people as carelessness is the grief of young people.
Confirmation of the truth is never superfluous, even when all doubt is asleep.
Excessive haste, just like slowness, leads to a sad end.
All lovers swear to do more than they can, and do not even do what is possible.
Blessed are the peacemakers on earth. Love everyone, trust the elect, do no harm to anyone.
Carried away by jealous suspicion, one can insult a completely innocent person.
No vice is so simple as not to take on the appearance of virtue from the outside.
In nothing do I find such happiness as in a soul that keeps the memory of my good friends.
Little cutesy poems irritate the nerves more than the creak of unoiled wheels.
The common fate of all braggarts: sooner or later, but still you will certainly get into a mess.
Do not give language to rash thoughts and do not carry out any rash thought.
When friendship begins to weaken and cool, she always resorts to increased politeness.
If you want to achieve the goal of your aspiration, ask more politely about the road you have lost.
In order to appreciate someone else's quality, you must have some share of this quality in yourself.
How far the rays of a tiny candle reach! A good deed shines in the same way in a world of bad weather.
You look at my children. My former freshness is alive in them. They are the justification for my old age.
Sometimes we find consolation in the loss itself, and sometimes we bitterly mourn the gain itself.
The greatest offense that can be done to an honest person is to suspect him of being dishonest.
Jealous people do not need a reason: they are often jealous not at all about it, but because they are jealous.
Love is omnipotent: there is no grief on earth - higher than its punishment, no happiness - higher than the pleasure of serving it.
If there were no reason, we would be overwhelmed by sensuality. That's what the mind is to curb its absurdities.
True love cannot speak, because true feeling is expressed more by deed than by words.
Be true to yourself, and then just as surely as night follows day, loyalty to other people will follow.
My honor is my life; both grow from the same root. Take away my honor and my life will be over.
We pray for mercy, and this prayer should teach us to respect acts of mercy.
Stupidity and wisdom are as easily seized as contagious diseases. So choose your comrades.
Doubts are traitors: by making us afraid of trying, they deprive us of the good that we often could have acquired.
Love is a beacon raised above a storm, Not fading in darkness and fog, Love is a star by which a sailor Determines a place in the ocean.
Nothing is always equally good, because the good, becoming too full-blooded, will die from its own overabundance.
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.
One of the finest comforts that life offers us, then. that one cannot sincerely try to help another without helping oneself.
You will live ten times in the world, repeated ten times in children, and you will have the right to triumph over conquered death in your last hour.
Outer beauty is even more precious when it covers the inner. A book whose golden clasps close the golden content gains special respect.
Be equal in everything, because in the very stream, in the storm and, I would say, in the whirlwind of passion, you must learn and observe the measure that would give it softness.
Immorality does not achieve more than the truth. Virtue is courageous, and goodness never fears. I will never regret doing a good deed.
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.
There is no living creature on earth So hard, tough, hellishly evil, So that even for one hour the music could not make a revolution in it. He who does not carry music in himself, Who is cold to charming harmony, He can be a traitor, a liar, a Robber, the souls of his movement are Dark as night, and, like Erebus, His affection is black. Do not trust such a person.
Good feet will stumble sooner or later; the proud back will bend; the black beard will turn gray; a curly head will grow bald; a beautiful face will be covered with wrinkles; deep vision will dim; but a good heart is like the sun and moon; and even rather the sun than the moon; for it shines with a bright light, never changes, and always follows the right path.
Note to yourself when wildly rushing In the steppes of herds or young horses A dashing herd - they gallop madly, Roar and neigh - then the blood plays in them. Hot. But as soon as they hear Only the sound of a trumpet or some other Sound of music - as they become rooted to the spot All instantly, and a wild look Under the power of a charming melody Will pass into humility and meekness.

And verbosity - mortal embellishments.
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 went to despair, then a tenth of humanity 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 respect 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.
No 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.
Persistence 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.

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William Shakespeare deservedly considered the greatest English-language writer and one of the best playwrights in the world. His literary heritage is divided into two parts: poetic (poems and sonnets) and dramatic, and in general has 154 sonnets, 38 plays, 4 poems and 3 epitaphs.

His works have been translated into most languages of the world and are staged in theaters more often than the works of any other playwright in the world.The works of William Shakespeare are full of profound observations about human nature, love, life and friendship. Almost 5 centuries have passed, but they are still relevant today more than ever.

We have collected 25 bright and deep quotes from the works of the great playwright and poet in order to once again think about the most important thing:

Not at all a sign of soullessness - silence. Thunders only what is empty inside.

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

We get irritated over trifles when we are offended by something serious.

Oaths given in a storm are forgotten in calm weather.

Mother nature is wise, but the son is brainless.

Where there are few words, they have weight.

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

Stupidity and wisdom are as easily seized as contagious diseases. So choose your comrades.

To catch happiness, you must be able to run.

Most people prefer stupidity to wisdom, because stupidity makes me laugh, but wisdom makes me sad.

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

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

Don't get too hot for your enemies, or you'll burn yourself in it..

The success of a witty word depends more on the ear of the hearer than on the tongue of the speaker.

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

Every madness has its own logic.

You can fall in love with beauty, but love - only the soul.

A crow smears its wings with mud -
No one will notice anyway
And the swan, despite all the efforts,
Can’t wash a stain from whiteness ...

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

A coward dies at every danger that threatens him, but death overtakes a brave man only once..

The poor crushed insect suffers just like the dying giant.

There is nothing bad or good in this world. There is only our attitude to something.

The best thing is a straight and simple spoken word.

You are trying so hard to judge the sins of others - start with your own and you won’t get to strangers.

Three rules for success: know more than the rest; work harder than others; expect less than the rest.