SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES VI

From a puzzle by Gia Christian

1. Words of finality (Macbeth)

2. Complete a cycle (King Lear) 

3. Hedonistic lifestyle (Hamlet)

4. A single blow (Macbeth)

5. Eternally (As You Like It)  

6. In suspense (The Merchant of Venice)

7. Very well-behaved (King John)

8. "And don't come back!" (Troilus and Cressida) 

9. "I just can't get a good night's sleep." (Henry IV, Part II)

Answers:

1. What's done is done.

2. Come full circle

3. Primrose path

4. One fell swoop

5. Forever and a day 

6. With bated breath

7. Quiet as a lamb

8. Good riddance 

9. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. 

SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES V

FAMOUS SHAKESPEAREAN LINES

1. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. 

Twelfth Night 

 

2. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

    Troilus and Cressida

 

3. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

    All's Well That Ends Well

 

4. The better part of valor is discretion. 

    (Regularly misquoted as "Discretion is the better part of valor.")

    Henry IV Part I

  

5. Glendower: I can call spirits from the deep.

    Hotspur:      Why, so can I, or so

                         can any man;

                         But will they come,

                         When you do call for them?

                          Henry IV Part I

 

6. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

    To the last syllable of recorded time.

    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

    The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!

    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

    Who struts and frets his hour upon the stage

    And then is heard no more. 

    It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

    Signifying nothing.

    Macbeth

SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES IV

FAMOUS SHAKESPEAREAN LINES

1. The course of love never did run smooth.

     A Midsummer's Night's Dream 

 

2. This above all - to thine own self be true.

    Hamlet

 

3. Parting is such sweet sorrow.

    Romeo and Juliet

 

4. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. 

    The Tempest

 

5. All the world's a stage,

    And all the men and women merely players;

    They have their exits and entrances,

    And one man in his time plays many parts.

    As You Like It

SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES III

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) coined phrases that are so imbedded in modern-day English that we don't realize how old they really are. Some examples and the works in which they first appeared:

1. Star-crossed lovers

    Romeo and Juliet

2. Wild-goose chase

    Romeo and Juliet

3. Break the ice

    Taming of the Shrew

4. Brave new world

    The Tempest

5. Melted into thin air

    The Tempest

SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES II

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) coined phrases that are so imbedded in modern day English that we don't realize how old they really are. Some examples and the works in which they first appeared:

1. The be-all and the end-all

    Macbeth

2. Jealousy is the green-eyed monster.

    Othello

3. What's done is done.

    Macbeth

4. Something wicked this way comes

    Macbeth

5. Foregone conclusion

    Othello

6. Wear my heart upon my sleeve

    Othello

7. All that glitters is not gold.*

    The Merchant of Venice

8. The world is my oyster.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

9. Short shrift

    Richard III

10. A tower of strength

      Richard III 

 

*Shakespeare wrote, "All that glisters is not gold."

SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES I

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) coined phrases that are so imbedded in the language today that we don't realize how old they really are. Some examples and the works in which they first appeared:

1. Too much of a good thing 

    As You Like It 

2. Neither rhyme nor reason

    The Comedy of Errors

3. I have not slept one wink.

    Cymbeline

4. The clothes make the man

5. In my heart of hearts

6. Own flesh and blood

7. Cruel to be kind - - - - -  - Hamlet

8. He hath eaten me out of house and home.

    Henry IV Part II

9. A dish fit for the gods

10. It's Greek to me. - - - - - Julius Caesar