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*[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] — some of these are often confused to be from Shakespeare.
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*[http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.htm Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare]
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*[http://www.phrases.org.uk/ The Phrase Finder] — meanings and origins of sayings and phrases
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*[http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bible-phrases-sayings.html List of Bible Phrases] — some of these are often confused to be from Shakespeare.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 09:07, 27 June 2007

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"

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