William Shakespeare Julio César
Antony, Act III, scene ii.
Julius Caesar (1599)
William Shakespeare Julio César
Antony, Act III, scene ii.
Julius Caesar (1599)
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
William Shakespeare Hamlet
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Hamlet (1600–1)
“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
William Shakespeare libro The Rape of Lucrece
The Rape of Lucrece.
“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Bedford, Act I, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”
Derived from a longer quote in Henry V, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
Misattributed
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”
William Shakespeare libro Shakespeare's Sonnets
Fuente: Sonnets (1609), CXVI
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Alençon, Act III, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Fuente: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).
Truly from Seneca the Younger, in De Ira, Book III, Chapter V:
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.
Misattributed
This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar, as well as to Shakespeare's play on his assassination and its aftermath, but there are no records of it prior to late 2000. It has been debunked at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm <br class="br">Misattributed
“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
William Shakespeare libro The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
William Shakespeare Timón de Atenas
Flavius, Act IV, scene ii.
Timon of Athens (1605)
“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
William Shakespeare Cymbeline
Guiderius, Act IV, scene ii.
Cymbeline (1610)
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Richard of Gloucester, Act V, scene vi.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Not by Shakespeare, but from Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, a 1993 self-help book by David S. Viscott.
Misattributed
Fuente: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/16/purpose-gift/