Shakespeare Quotes | Pub Quizine

Barry Manilow may claim to write the songs, but it was William Shakespeare who coined or popularised the phrases. Many sayings or phrases are still in daily use were penned or popularised by William Shakespeare

#	Phrase or Saying	Shakespeare play
1	A countenance more in sorrow than in anger	Hamlet
2	A Daniel come to judgement	The Merchant of Venice
3	A dish fit for the gods	Julius Caesar
4	A fool’s paradise	Romeo and Juliet
5	A foregone conclusion	Othello
6	A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse	Richard III
7	A ministering angel shall my sister be	Hamlet
8	A plague on both your houses	Romeo and Juliet
9	A rose by any other name would smell as sweet	Romeo and Juliet
10	A sea change	The Tempest
11	A sorry sight	Macbeth
12	Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety	Antony and Cleopatra
13	Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio	Hamlet
14	All corners of the world	The Merchant of Venice
15	All of a sudden	The Taming of the Shrew
16	All one to me	Troilus and Cressida
17	All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold	The Merchant of Venice,
18	All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players	As You Like It
19	All’s well that ends well	All’s Well That Ends Well
20	An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own	As You Like It
21	And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school	As You Like It
22	And thereby hangs a tale	As You Like It
23	As cold as any stone	Henry V
24	As dead as a doornail	King Henry VI, Part 2
25	As good luck would have it	The Merry Wives of Windsor
26	As merry as the day is long	Much Ado About Nothing
27	As pure as the driven snow	Macbeth
28	At one fell swoop	Macbeth
29	Bag and baggage	As You Like It
30	Bated breath	The Merchant of Venice
31	Be all and end all	Macbeth
32	Beast with two backs	Othello
33	Beware the ides of March	Julius Caesar
34	Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks	King Lear
35	Brevity is the soul of wit	Hamlet
36	But screw your courage to the sticking-place	Macbeth
37	But, for my own part, it was Greek to me	Julius Caesar
38	Come the three corners of the world in arms	King John
39	Come what come may	Macbeth
40	Comparisons are odorous	Much Ado About Nothing
41	Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war	Julius Caesar
42	Dash to pieces	The Tempest
43	Discretion is the better part of valour	King Henry the Fourth, Part One
44	Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble	Macbeth
45	Eaten out of house and home	Henry IV Part II
46	Et tu, Brute	Julius Caesar
47	Even at the turning of the tide	Henry V
48	Exceedingly well read	Henry IV Part 1
49	Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog	Macbeth
50	Fair play	The Tempest
51	Fancy free	A Midsummer Nights Dream
52	Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man	King Lear
53	Fight fire with fire	King John
54	For ever and a day	The Taming of the Shrew
55	Foul play	Love’s Labours Lost
56	Frailty, thy name is woman	Hamlet
57	Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears	Julius Caesar
58	Good men and true	Much Ado About Nothing
59	Good riddance	Merchant of Venice
60	Green eyed monster	Othello
61	Hark, hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings	Cymbeline
62	He will give the Devil his due	Henry V Part 1
63	Heart’s content	Henry VI, Part II
64	High time	Comedy of Errors
65	His beard was as white as snow	Hamlet
66	Hoist by your own petard	Hamlet
67	Hot-blooded	The Merry Wives of Windsor
68	Household words	Henry V
69	How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child	King Lear
70	I bear a charmed life	Macbeth
71	I have not slept one wink	Cymbeline
72	I must be cruel, only to be kind	Hamlet
73	I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips	Henry V
74	If music be the food of love, play on	Twelfth Night
75	In a pickle	The Tempest
76	In my mind’s eye, Horatio	Hamlet
77	In stitches	Twelfth Night
78	In the twinkling of an eye	Macbeth
79	Is this a dagger which I see before me?	The Merchant Of Venice
80	It beggar’d all description	Antony and Cleopatra
81	It is meat and drink to me	As You Like It
82	Keep your distance	All’s Well that ends Well
83	Lay it on with a trowel	As You Like It
84	Lie low	Much Ado About Nothing
85	Like the Dickens	Merry Wives of Windsor
86	Lily-livered	Macbeth
87	Love is blind	Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V and The Merchant Of Venice
88	Make an ass of yourself	A Midsummer Night’s Dream
89	Make your hair stand on end	Hamlet
90	Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water	Henry VIII
91	Milk of human kindness	Macbeth
92	Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows	The Tempest
93	More fool you	The Taming of the Shrew
94	More honoured in the breach than in the observance	Hamlet
95	Much Ado about Nothing	Romeo and Juliet
96	My salad days	Anthony and Cleopatra
97	Neither a borrower nor a lender be	Hamlet
98	Night owl	Richard II and Twelfth Night
99	No more cakes and ale?	Twelfth Night
100	Now is the winter of our discontent	Richard III
101	O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo	Romeo and Juliet
102	Off with his head	Henry VI Part III
103	Oh, that way madness lies	King Lear
104	Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more	Henry V, Act III
105	Out of the jaws of death	Twelfth Night
106	Pomp and circumstance	Othello
107	Pound of flesh	Merchant of Venice
108	Primrose path	Hamlet
109	Rhyme nor reason	Comedy of Errors
110	Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything	As You Like It
111	Screw your courage to the sticking place	Macbeth
112	Sea change	The Tempest
113	Send him packing	Henry IV, Part I
114	Set your teeth on edge	Henry IV, Part I
115	Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?	Sonnet 18
116	Short shrift	Richard III
117	Shuffle off this mortal coil	Hamlet
118	Sleep like a top	The Two Noble Kinsmen
119	Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep	Henry VI. Part II
120	Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em	Twelfth Night
121	Something is rotten in the state of Denmark	Hamlet
122	Son of a bitch	King Lear
123	Star crossed lovers	Romeo and Juliet
124	Stiffen the sinews	Henry V
125	Stony hearted	Henry IV Part I
126	Such stuff as dreams are made on	The Tempest
127	The be all and end all	Macbeth
128	The course of true love never did run smooth	A Midsummer Nights Dream
129	The crack of doom	Macbeth
130	The Devil incarnate	King Henry V and Titus Andronicus
131	The game is afoot	King Henry IV Part I
132	The game is up	Cymbeline
133	The quality of mercy is not strained	The Merchant of Venice
134	The Queen’s English	The Merry Wives of Windsor
135	The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune	Hamlet
136	The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on	Henry VI, Part III
137	The time of life is short!	Henry IV, Part I
138	Thereby hangs a tale	As You Like It
139	There’s method in my madness	Hamlet
140	This is the short and the long of it	The Merry Wives of Windsor
141	This is very midsummer madness	Twelfth Night
142	This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle	Richard II
143	Though this be madness, yet there is method in it	Hamlet
144	Thus far into the bowels of the land	King Henry IV, Part I and Richard III
145	To be or not to be, that is the question	Hamlet
146	To gild refined gold, to paint the lily	King John
147	To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub	Hamlet
148	Too much of a good thing	As You Like It
149	Truth will out	The Merchant of Venice
150	Under the greenwood tree	As You Like It
151	Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown	Henry IV, Part II
152	Up in arms	Richard III
153	Vanish into thin air	Othello
154	We few, we happy few, we band of brothers	Henry V
155	We have seen better days	As You Like It, Timon of Athens
156	Wear your heart on your sleeve	Othello
157	What a piece of work is man	Hamlet
158	What’s in a name?	Romeo and Juliet
159	When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions	Hamlet
160	Where the bee sucks, there suck I	The Tempest
161	While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!	Henry IV, Part I
162	Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure	The Taming of the Shrew
163	Wild goose chase	Romeo and Juliet
164	Woe is me	Hamlet
165	You are not worth another word else I’d call you knave	All’s Well that ends Well