Quotes About Interpretation

I cannot speak your england.

Non v'è arte buona a leggere nel volto i disegni della mente.

Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Kind sir, give me a good fortune. Fortuneteller: I don't make fortunes; I only see them. Charmian: Then see a good one for me. Fortuneteller: Your beauty will be even greater than it is now. Charmian (to the others) He means I'll get fat. Iras No, he means you'll use makeup when you're old. Fortuneteller: You will love more than you are loved. Charmian: I had rather heat my liver with drinking.

O! be some other name: What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title.

Hear the meaning within the word.

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse if imagination amend them.

Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.

That which we call a rose      By any other name would smell as sweet;

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

There's meaning in thy snores.

Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys? Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French What is his name. Boy- Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele? French Soldier- Monsieur le Fer. Boy- He says his name is Master Fer. PISTOL- Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him: discuss the same in French unto him. Boy- I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero

thither write, my queen, And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send Though ink be made of gall.

a raven's heart within a dove.

What do you read, my lord? Words, words, words.

Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.

As with all literature, the play should be read through the eyes of the author, as far as this is possible, which in Shakespeare's case means reading it through the eyes of an orthodox Christian living in Elizabethan England.

for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness.

Read it you, sirrah.

If our life is a play, we may not be the playwright, but we can choose to be the director. We can interpret the play as we choose, able to portray ourselves either as victims of destiny or as the captains of our fate. Whether what happens to us is pure accident or not, we are the decisive factor in our life: we may not always be able to choose our circumstances, but we are able to choose our responses to them.