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Phrases from Shakespeare


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Phrases from Shakespeare : Phrases




Shakespeare contributed more phrases to the English language than any other individual. Here's a collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare, although not all of them were coined by him.



  • A Charmed Life
  • A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
  • A Daniel come to judgement
  • A dish fit for the gods
  • A Fool's Paradise
  • A Foregone Conclusion
  • A High Time
  • A Horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
  • A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
  • A ministering angel shall my sister be
  • A plague on both your houses
  • A Sea Change
  • A Sorry Sight
  • Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
  • Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
  • All corners of the world
  • All that glisters is not gold
  • All that glitters is not gold
  • All one to me
  • As white as snow
  • At one fell swoop
  • Bag and Baggage
  • Beast with two backs
  • Beware The Ides of March
  • Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks
  • Brevity is the soul of wit
  • But screw your courage to the sticking-place
  • But, for my own part, it was Greek to me
  • Come the three corners of the world in arms
  • Come what come may
  • Comparisons are Odious
  • Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
  • Discretion is the better part of valour
  • Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble
  • Eaten out of house and home
  • Et Tu, Brute
  • Even at the turning of the tide
  • Exceedingly Well Read
  • Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
  • Fair Play
  • Fancy Free
  • Fie, foh, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman
  • Fight Fire with Fire
  • For Ever and A Day
  • Frailty, thy name is woman
  • Foul Play
  • Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
  • Gild The Lily
  • Good Men and True
  • Good Riddance
  • Green-Eyed Monster
  • Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
  • He will give the Devil his due
  • Heart's Content
  • High Time
  • His beard was as white as snow
  • Hoist by your own petard
  • How Sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
  • I bear a Charmed Life
  • I have not slept one wink
  • I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
  • I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
  • If music be the food of love, play on
  • In A Pickle
  • In my mind's eye, Horatio
  • In Stitches
  • In the twinkling of an eye
  • Is this A Dagger which I see before me?
  • It beggar'd All Description
  • It is Meat and Drink to me
  • It was Greek to me
  • Lay it on with a trowel
  • Lie Low
  • Like The Dickens
  • Love is Blind
  • Makes your hair stand on end
  • Men's Evil Manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
  • Milk of Human Kindness
  • Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
  • More Fool You
  • More honoured in the breach than in the observance
  • Much ado about nothing
  • Mum is The Word
  • My Mind's Eye
  • My Salad Days
  • Neither a borrower nor a lender be
  • Night Owl
  • No more cakes and ale?
  • Now is the winter of our discontent
  • O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
  • Off With His Head
  • Oh, That Way Madness lies
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
  • Out of The Jaws of Death
  • Pound of Flesh
  • Primrose Path
  • Rhyme nor Reason
  • Salad Days
  • Sans Teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
  • Screw your courage to the sticking place
  • Send Him Packing
  • Set One's Teeth on Edge
  • Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  • Short Shrift
  • Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil
  • Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
  • Some are born great
  • Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
  • Star-Crossed Lovers
  • Stiffen The Sinews
  • Stony-Hearted
  • Such stuff as dreams are made on
  • The bowels of the earth
  • The Course of True Love never did run smooth
  • The Crack of Doom
  • The Devil Incarnate
  • The game is afoot
  • The Game is Up
  • The quality of mercy is not strained
  • The Queen's English
  • The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
  • The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
  • Thereby Hangs A Tale
  • There's Method in My Madness
  • This is the short and the long of it
  • This is very midsummer madness
  • This Precious Stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
  • Though This Be madness, yet there is method in it
  • To be or not To be : That is the question
  • To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub
  • Too much of a good thing
  • Truth Will Out
  • Under The Greenwood Tree
  • Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
  • Vanish into thin air
  • We Few, we happy few, we band of brothers
  • We Have Seen Better Days
  • Wear your heart on your sleeve
  • What a piece of work is man
  • When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions

  • Where the bee sucks, there suck I

  • While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!

  • Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure

  • Wild Goose Chase

  • Woe is Me




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