While William Shakespeare died many years ago, the English playwright and poet lives on not only through his writings, but through the words and sayings attributed to him that still color the English language today. So whether you are "fashionable" or "sanctimonious," thank Shakespeare, who coined the terms.
Shakespeare is called the greatest author in the English language not only because his works are in English, but also for his profound and lasting impact on the language itself. Shakespeare coined over 1,500 words by himself. (Some estimate this number to be closer to 10,000 words!)
Here's a collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare:
• Eaten out of house and home
• Pomp and circumstance
• Full circle
• The makings of
• Method in the madness
• Neither rhyme nor reason
• One fell swoop
• Seen better days
• It smells to heaven
• A sorry sight
• A spotless reputation
• Sweets to the sweet
• In my heart of hearts
• All that glitters is not gold
Try the Shakespeare dictionary.
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading this post, find a quote from one of Shakespeare's plays or poems to post as a comment. Be sure to note the quote source and get parental approval before posting your chosen quote.
Portia: Therefore, prepare thee to cut off the flesh. Shed thou no blood, nor gut thou less nor more but just a pound of flesh: if thou tak'st more or less than just a pound, be it so much as makes it light or heavy in the substance, or the division of the twentieth part of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn but in the estimation of a hair, thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.
ReplyDeleteThe Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare made easy
Laura
Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o'nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
ReplyDeleteOnce more to the breach, dear friends, once more, or close up the wall with our English dead. Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1
Donald Livingston
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
ReplyDeleteWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)
"All that glitters is not gold"
ReplyDeleteThis famous quote originated in the play by William Shakespeare - the actual word is 'Glisters' but over time this is commonly referred to as 'Glitters'.
JohnO
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
ReplyDeleteRomeo and Juliet
John W.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
ReplyDeleteLenard Caputo
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
ReplyDeleteThe valiant never taste of death but once."
Julius Caesar (Act 2, scene 2)
Paul Waters
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
ReplyDeleteQuite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;
And, in his mantle muffling up his face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statue,
Which all the while ran blood, great Caeser fell.
The Tragedy of Julius Caeser
Act III * Scene II
Posted by: Judah
Come, go we in procession to the village.
ReplyDeleteAnd be it death proclaimed through our host
To boast of this, or take that praise from God
Which is his only.
The Life of Henry the Fifth
Act IV * Scene VIII
Posted by: Joseph
Now all the youth of England are on fire, and silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies.-Henry V
ReplyDeleteLauryn Caputo
"Nothing can come of nothing: speak again."
ReplyDeleteKing Lear (I, i, 92)
-Joel R. Frost
Marcus Antonius:
ReplyDelete"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar."
From Marcus Antonius -Leanna H. (oft is old english for often)
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
ReplyDeleteFor he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
-Evan Kirk-
"Such stuff as dreams are made of."
ReplyDeleteThe Tempest Act 4, scene 1
-Emily Hier
All that glisters is not gold;
ReplyDeleteOften have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgement old
Your answer had not been inscroll'd
Fare you well, your suit is cold.
The Merchant of Venice (II, vii)
- Ruth Hill
"The play's the thing
ReplyDeletewherein I'll catch the conscience
of the king."
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
- Ann Marie Michaelis
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
ReplyDeleteKing Henry V Quote Act iv. Scene 3.
Josh M.
"All the world's a stage,
ReplyDeleteAnd all the men and women merely players."
As you like it
Jim Hier
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Shakespeare
David.H