Shakespeare Phrases

Phrases

• A Daniel come to judgement
• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• A ministering angel shall my sister be
• A plague on both your houses
• 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 the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
• All's Well, That Ends Well
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• And thereby hangs a tale
• Anthony and Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• As cold as any stone
• As good luck would have it
• As merry as the day is long
• As pure as the driven snow
• At one fell swoop
• Bag and baggage
• Beware the Ides of March
• Blow winds, and crack your cheeks
• But for my own part, it was Greek to me
• But screw your courage to the sticking-place
• Come the three corners of the world in arms
• Come what come may
• Comparisons are odorous
• Crack of doom
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Discretion is the better part of valour
• Dish fit for the gods
• 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
• Fancy free
• Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
• Flesh and blood
• For ever and a day
• Frailty, thy name is woman
• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
• Fringe theatre
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Globe trotter
• Good luck would have it
• Good men and true
• Green eyed monster
• Halcyon days
• Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet (Hamlet Cigars advertising slogan)
• Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
• He must needs go that the Devil drives
• He will give the Devil his due
• 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 (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In my mind's eye, Horatio
• 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
• King Lear
• Lay it on with a trowel
• Like the dickens
• Love is blind
• Loves Labour Lost
• Main chance
• Make haste
• Makes your hair stands on end
• Measure for Measure
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Midsummer Nights Dream
• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
• More honoured in the breach than in the observance
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mum's the word

• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• My salad days
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be
• Neither here nor there
• No more cakes and ale?
• Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
• Now is the winter of our discontent
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Off with his head
• Oh, that way madness lies
• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
• Out of the jaws of death
• Paperback Writer (Beatles song)
• Play within a play
• Pound of flesh
• Pox on both your houses
• Primrose path
• Rhyme nor reason
• Romeo and Juliet
• Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
• Screw your courage to the sticking place
• Sea change
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• Shuffle off this mortal coil
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Smooth talk
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
• Sorry sight
• Star crossed lovers
• Stiffen the sinews
• Such stuff as dreams are made on
• The Bard of Avon (Nickname of William Shakespeare)
• The Bard of Ayrshire (Nickname of Robert Burns)
• The Bard of Twickenham (Nickname of Alexander Pope)
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• The Poet (Nickname of Etan Thomas)
• The Scottish play
• The Swan of Avon (Nickname of William Shakespeare)
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Winters Tale
• The beast with two backs
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The darling buds of May
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• The live-long day
• The milk of human kindness
• The play's the thing
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
• The queen's English
• The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• There's method in my madness
• Thereby hangs a tale
• This above all: to thine own self be true (William Shakespeare)
• This is very midsummer madness
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Though last, not least in love
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
• Thus far into the bowels of the land
• To be or not to be: that is the question (from a Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
• Tower of strength
• Twelfth Night
• Under the greenwood tree
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• We have seen better days
• What a piece of work is man
• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (from a sonnet by Shakespeare)
• When shall we three meet again?
• 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
• Woe is me

Related

• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• 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)
• This above all: to thine own self be true (William Shakespeare)
• To be or not to be: that is the question (from a Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (from a sonnet by Shakespeare)