Wednesday, June 15, 2011

famous quotes of Shakespeare

Shakespearean quotations such as "To be, or not to be" and "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" form some of literature's most celebrated lines and if asked to recite one of William Shakespeare's most famous quotes or quotations the majority of people would choose one of these. However, many expressions that we use every day originated in William Shakespeare's plays. We use the Bard's words all of the time in everyday speech, however, we are often totally unaware that we are 'borrowing' sayings from his work! William Shakespeare is attributed with writing 38 plays, Famous Shakespearean sonnets and 5 other poems and used about 21,000 different words. William Shakespeare is credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with the introduction of nearly 3,000 words into the language. It's no wonder that expressions from the works of William Shakespeare have become 'anonymous' parts of the English language.
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  • All our yesterdays (Macbeth)




  • All that glitters is not gold (The Merchant of Venice)


  • All's well that ends well (title)

  • As good luck would have it (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

  • As merry as the day is long (Much Ado About Nothing / King John)

  • Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice

  • Bag and baggage (As You Like It / Winter's Tale)

  • Bear a charmed life (Macbeth)

  • Be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)

  • Beggar all description (Antony and Cleopatra)

  • Better foot before ("best foot forward") (King John


  • The better part of valor is discretion (I Henry IV; possibly already a known saying)

  • In a better world than this (As You Like It)

  • Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Hamlet)

  • Brave new world (The Tempest

  • Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew

  • Breathed his last (3 Henry VI)

  • Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamle

  • Refuse to budge an inch (Measure for Measure / Taming of the Shrew)

  • Cold comfort (The Taming of the Shrew / King John)

  • Conscience does make cowards of us all (Hamlet)

  • Come what come may ("come what may") (Macbeth

  • Comparisons are odorous (Much Ado about Nothing


  • Crack of doom (Macbeth


  • Dead as a doornail (2 Henry VI)

  • A dish fit for the gods (Julius Caesar)

  • Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war (Julius Caesar)

  • Dog will have his day (Hamlet; quoted earlier by Erasmus and Queen Elizabeth


  • Devil incarnate (Titus Andronicus / Henry V


  • Eaten me out of house and home (2 Henry IV)


  • Elbow room (King John; first attested 1540 according to Merriam-Webster


  • Farewell to all my greatness (Henry VIII)


  • Faint hearted (I Henry VI)


  • Fancy-free (Midsummer Night's Dream)


  • Fight till the last gasp (I Henry VI)


  • Flaming youth (Hamlet)


  • Forever and a day (As You Like It

  • For goodness' sake (Henry VIII)

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