Or you could frame it and keep it for yourself! Shakespeare Quotes on Love, Life, Dream, Friendship William Shakespeare, one of the most prominent British writers, wrote many famous plays like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice ,. I have more care to stay, than will to go. If you poison us, do we not die? Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. Helena thinks that Demetrius should love her for who she is and keep his promises to her rather than loving Hermia for her beauty. You want to put yourself out there, spend your life by doing things that make you feel amazing. Short and sweet, and one of the most famous Shakespeare quotes of all.
I think the poet in him attained its full maturity while penning down dramatic verses. Barrie Life will continually show you just how small you are in this grand universe. This quote shows that he is committed to kill Duncan and that he is seeing things and cannot tell reality from fantasy. An expression you might have heard on countless occasions and wrongly presumed to be a reference to another writer of note, Charles Dickens. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. I see a better state to me belongs Than that which on thy humour doth depend: Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind, Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! He is asking himself if it is better to give up and die rather than facing his troubles but he is frightened that he will dream when he is dead and never get any peace from his earthly troubles. She is talking about the family rivalry between the Montagues and the Capulets and asks herself what difference does a name make; it would still smell as sweet if it were called something different. Lennon wrote so many poignant lyrics that he ends up on many of our quote lists here and on other quote sites. Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit. Out of her favour, where I am in love. Flowers provide the nectar for honey to be made, so this quote is saying that life is the source of love, yet another quote that draws the connection between life and love.
You always want to be pushing yourself and growing, moving into new areas, learning new things, and having new experiences. However, a good way to look at these obstacles and challenges is as opportunities. One of the World's Great Poet William Shakespeare gift of God in the this world. To study while sitting back with the popcorn and a movie,. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.
Macbeth starts to worry about what he has down and barely sleep the night. Exton, thy fierce hand Hath with thy king's blood stain'd the king's own land. Did you ever stop to wonder where we get our energy from? Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. Dromio: Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say, every why hath a wherefore. But Stephen King gets the credit for penning these words years before in the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If life is a highway, the best way to approach it is to drive along all day and all night and make the most out of it. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet.
Dromio: Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten. Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. It does say a lot about life though, and how to simply keep calm and get on with your life rather than freaking out about the state of things. Higher education, Master of Psychology. If you want to discover more about Shakespeare have a look at No Fear Shakespeare to see original text side by side with a modern explanation.
It seems that technology is supposed to be making it easier for us, but we find reasons to complain about how hard life still is. This passage is an example for his keen observation of life. That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. Life is precious and fragile and many of us take it for granted, when there are those that have come before us that have given their lives to get us where we are today. Shakespeare is, and always has been, a staple of English literature — and probably always will be.
The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long. NatureÂ’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? And sleep has another direct effect on the imagination to which Shakespeare, like other poets, was keenly alive: it is the portrait and prognostic of the sleep that ends all. The following Shakespeare Quotes are very well known, and many people do use these quotes on various occasions. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. Antipholus: Shall I tell you why? Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them my life hath end.
I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. The cause of the confusion lies in twin Antipholus and Dromios, a case of comical mistaken identity — a plot still used by Hollywood today. Eliot A great way to end our list is with this amazing description of life. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen, Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.