莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)是英国文学史上最伟大的戏剧家和诗人,他的名作《哈姆雷特》、《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《李尔王》等被广为传诵。他留下的名言警句也在世界范围内备受人们推崇。下面是莎士比亚最经典的句子,共计30句,它们无论是在英国文学史中还是在世界文化中都是无与伦比的典范。
1. To be, or not to be, that is the question.(《哈姆雷特》)
2. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.(《如何你想要》)
3. If music be the food of love, play on.(《第十二夜》)
4. The course of true love never did run smooth.(《仲夏夜之梦》)
5. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.(《第十二夜》)
6. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.(《暴风雨》)
7. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.(《哈姆雷特》)
8. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.(《罗密欧与朱丽叶》)
9. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. (《哈姆雷特》)
10. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.(《仲夏夜之梦》)
11. How now! A rat in my kitchen?(《口角》)
12. I am one who loved not wisely but too well.(《奥赛罗》)
13. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.(《商人》)
14. Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?(《麦克白》)
15. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.(《哈姆雷特》)
16. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.(《麦克白》)
17. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.(《哈姆雷特》)
18. Beware the ides of March.(《凯撒大帝》)
19. I must be cruel only to be kind.(《哈姆雷特》)
20. As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport. (《李尔王》)
21. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!(《哈姆雷特》)
22. The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.(《威尼斯商人》)
23. All that glitters is not gold.(《威尼斯商人》)
24. To sleep, perchance to dream.(《哈姆雷特》)
25. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.(《麦克白》)
26. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!(《罗密欧与朱丽叶》)
27. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.(《凯撒大帝》)
28. All things are ready, if our mind be so.(《亨利五世》)
29. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.(《哈姆雷特》)
30. Though she be but little, she is fierce.(《仲夏夜之梦》)
莎士比亚是英国文学史上的巨擘,他不仅创作了许多具有深刻内涵的作品,还留下了许多令人铭记的名言。这些经典的句子不仅在英国文学中广为流传,在世界文化史上也发挥了重要的作用。他的作品至今仍被广泛地传颂和演绎,他的影响力也越来越大。