Christoph: /* External links */

2007-06-27T09:07:59Z

‎External links

Christoph at 23:20, 31 December 2006

2006-12-31T23:20:50Z

Christoph at 23:19, 31 December 2006

2006-12-31T23:19:13Z

New page

The following is an incomplete list of well-known phrases in Shakespeare's works.

''Note: Not all of the following were coined by Shakespeare.''

* "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 horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse"
* "A ministering angel shall my sister be"
* "A plague on both your houses"
* "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
* "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 one to me"
* "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"
* "As cold as any stone"
* "As dead as a doornail"
* "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"
* "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 odorous"
* "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, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man"
* "For ever and a day"
* "Frailty, thy name is woman"
* "Foul play"
* "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears"
* "Good men and true"
* "Good riddancee"
* "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"
* "Lay it on with a trowel"
* "Lie low"
* "Like the Dickens"
* "Love is blind"
* "Make 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's the word"
* "My salad days"
* "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
* "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 your 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, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em"
* "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
* "Star crossed lovers"
* "Stiffen the sinews"
* "Stony hearted"
* "Such stuff as dreams are made on"
* "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 lady doth protest too much, methinks"
* "The live-long day"
* "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"
* "There's method in my madness"
* "Thereby hangs a tale"
* "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"
* "Thus far into the bowels of the land"
* "To be or not to be, that is the question"
* "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily"
* "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub"
* "Too much of a good thing"
* "Tower of strength"
* "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"
* "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 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 new item"
* "Woe is me"

==External links==
* http://www.phrases.org.uk/

[[Category:Linguistics]]

@@ Line 155: / Line 155: @@
 ==External links==
-* http://www.phrases.org.uk/
+*[http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/shakespeare_words_phrases.htm Shakespeare's words and phrases]
-* [http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bible-phrases-sayings.html List of Bible Phrases] &mdash; some of these are often confused to be from Shakespeare.
+*[http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare]
 [[Category:Linguistics]]

List of Phrases from Shakespeare - Revision history

Christoph: /* External links */

Christoph at 23:20, 31 December 2006

Christoph at 23:19, 31 December 2006