Shakespeare Sayings The Bard of Avon Additions to the English language by William Shakespeare
A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! - (Richard III)
All that glitters is not gold - (The Merchant of Venice)
All the world’s a stage. - (As You Like It)
A pound of flesh. - (The Merchant of Venice)
A sorry sight. - (Macbeth)
A spotless reputation. - (Richard III)
Bated breath. - (The Merchant of Venice)
Brave new world. - (The Tempest)
Budge an inch. - (The Taming of the Shrew)
Eaten me out of house and home. - (Henry IV)
Foregone conclusion. - (Othello)
For goodness’ sake. - (Henry VII)
Full circle. - (King Lear)
Heart on my sleeve. - (Othello)
If music be the food of love, play on... - (Twelfth Night)
In my heart of hearts. - (Hamlet)
In my mind’s eye. - (Hamlet)
Knock, knock! Who’s there? - (Macbeth)
Let’s kill all the lawyers. - (Henry VI)
Method in the madness. - (Hamlet)
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. - (Hamlet)
Neither rhyme, nor reason. - (The Comedy of Errors)
Parting is such sweet sorrow. - (Romeo and Juliet)
Pomp and circumstance. - (Othello)
Short shrift. - (Richard III)
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - (Hamlet)
Strange bedfellows. - (The Tempest)
Sweets to the sweet. - (Hamlet)
The be all and end all. - (Macbeth)
The better part of valor is discretion. - (Henry IV)
The green-eyed monster. - (Othello)
The milk of human kindness. - (Macbeth)
The most unkindest cut of all. - (Julius Caesar)
The primrose path. - (Hamlet)
Too much of a good thing. - (As You Like It)
To thine own self be true. - (Hamlet)
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. - (Henry IV)
What’s done is done. - (Macbeth)
It is believed that Shakespeare was forty-six around the time the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the forty-sixth word from the first word is shake, and the
forty-sixth word from the last word is spear.