Excerpts from Shakespeare’s classic quotations (bilingual)

A small candle, how far its light shines! A good deed is just like this candle, in this sin shine a bright light on the world.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to from and dignity: love looks not with the eyes, but with mind. (A Midsummer Night?s Dream 1.1 )

In the eyes of love, despicableness and bad deeds are not counted, and they can be transformed into happiness and solemnity: Love is not judged by the eyes, but by the heart/Love is not judged by the eyes, but by the heart. . ?"A Midsummer Night's Dream"

　Lord, what fools these mortals be! (A Midsummer Night?s Dream 3.2)

God, how can these mortals be complete fools! ?"A Midsummer Night's Dream"

　The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact. (A Midsummer Night?s Dream 5.1)

　The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact. It is the child of imagination. ?"A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Since the little wit that fools have was silent, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. (As You Like It, 1.2)

Since the little cleverness of fools has been silenced, the little foolishness of smart people has become more eye-catching. ?"As You Like It"

The world is a stage, and all men and women are just actors. They all have their time to come off and their time to come on. A person plays several roles in his life. ?《As You Like It》

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. (As You Like It, 1.3)

Beauty provokes evil intentions sooner than gold. ?《As You Like It》

Sweet are the uses of adversity. (As You Like It, 2.1)

Adversity and misfortune have their own advantages. ?"As You Like It"

Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak. (As You Like It, 3.2)

Don't you know I am a woman? ?Whatever is on my mind, I will say it. ?"As You Like It"

Love is merely a madness. (As You Like It, 3.2)

Love is merely a madness.

?《Everybody's Happy》

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! (As You Like It)

Oh! Look from the eyes of others When I feel happy, I really feel unspeakable sadness!? "As You Like It"

　It is a wise father that knows his own child. (A Merchant of Venice 2.2)

　The father of a wise child. For wisdom. ?"The Merchant of Venice"

Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. (A Merchant of Venice 2.6)

Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. Stupid things you did. ?"The Merchant of Venice"

　All that glisters is not gold. (A Merchant of Venice 2.7)

　All that glisters is not gold. ?"The Merchant of Venice"

So is the will of a living daughter curb?d by the will of a dead father. (A Merchant of Venice 1.2)

　A living woman's His wishes were limited by his deceased father's will. ?"The Merchant of Venice"

The appearance is often completely inconsistent with the thing itself, and people in the world are easily deceived by superficial decoration. ?"The Merchant of Venice"

Without comparison, there will be no merit; without people who appreciate it, the song of a crow will be like a skylark. If the nightingale sings during the day amid the noise, no one would think that it sings more beautifully than the wren. How many things can reach perfection and win appropriate praise because of favorable circumstances. ?"The Merchant of Venice"

The quality of mercy is not strained. (A Merchant of Venice 4.1)

The quality of mercy is not strained. ?"The Merchant of Venice"

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (Measure for Measure 2.1)

Some people rise by sin, and some fall by virtue. ?《Tit for Measure》

　O, it is excellent to have a giant?s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. (Measure for Measure 2.1)

< p> It is good to have the power of a giant, but abusing power like a giant is an act of cruelty. ?"Tit for Measure"

I?ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death but no word to save thee. (Measure for Measure 3.1)

I?ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death but no word to save thee. (Measure for Measure 3.1)

Let you die without even praying to save your life.

?《Tit for Measure》

O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! (Measure for Measure 3.2)

Oh! A person's appearance can be Pretend to be like an angel, but you may hide yourself deep inside!? "Tit for Tat"

　Beauty, wit, high birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. (Troilus and Cressida 3.3)

Beauty, wisdom, family status, strength of arms, career, love, friendship and kindness must all obey the orders of jealous and ruthless time. . ?《Troilus and Cressida》

　You gods divine! Make Cressida?s name the very crown of falsehood, if ever she leave Troilus. (Troilus and Cressida 4.2)

O God! If one day Cressida betrays Troilus, then let her name be reviled forever!? "Troilus and Cressida"

Beauty! Where is thy faith? (Troilus and Cressida 5.2)

Beauty! Where is your sincerity"Troilus and Cressida"

Take but degree away, untune that string, and, hark , what discord follows! (Troilus and Cressida 1.3)

Without discipline, it is like a broken string, listen! A harsh noise follows!? "Troilus and Cressida"