Category · 22 phrases
Phrases coined by Shakespeare - Hamlet
A list of the phrases and sayings that first saw the light of day, or were made popular by, Shakespeare’s play Hamlet:
- A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
- A ministering angel shall my sister be
- Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
- As white as snow
- Brevity is the soul of wit
- Frailty, thy name is woman
- Hoist with your own petard
- Makes your hair stand on end
- More honoured in the breach than in the observance
- My mind's eye
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be
- Primrose path
- Shuffle off this mortal coil
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
- The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
- There's method in my madness
- To be, or not to be, that is the question
- To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
- To thine own self be true
- What a piece of work is man
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
- Woe is me