Hamlet Phrases

Phrases

• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• A ministering angel shall my sister be
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• Flesh and blood
• Frailty, thy name is woman
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet (Hamlet Cigars advertising slogan)
• His beard was as white as snow
• Hoist by your own petard
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In my mind's eye, Horatio
• Makes your hair stands on end

• More honoured in the breach than in the observance
• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Primrose path
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
• The Bard of Avon (Nickname of William Shakespeare)
• The Swan of Avon (Nickname of William Shakespeare)
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)

• The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
• There's method in my madness
• This above all: to thine own self be true (William Shakespeare)
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
• To be or not to be: that is the question (from a Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• What a piece of work is man
• When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (from a sonnet by Shakespeare)
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
• Woe is me