Have you ever said, "It's Greek to me" "the game's up"?
If so, you have quoted Shakespeare! Here are some more examples which
some may quote without knowing they are come from Shakespeare!
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Quotation Database!
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Quotation
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| It beggared all description. |
Antony and Cleopatra
2.2.203. |
| It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: |
As You Like It
5.1.9. |
| The game is up. |
Cymbeline
3.3.107. |
| I have not slept one wink. |
Cymbeline
3.4.101. |
more in sorrow than in anger.
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Hamlet
1.2.232. |
| Neither a borrower or a lender be. |
Hamlet
1.3. |
| Brevity is the soul of wit. |
Hamlet
2.2.91. |
| I must be cruel only to be kind. |
Hamlet
3.4.178. |
The better part of valour is discretion.
(Discretion is the better part of valor.) |
Henry 4 Part 1
5.4.117-8. |
| He has eaten me out of house and home. |
Henry 4 Part 2
2.1.70. |
| Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. |
Henry 4 Part 2
3.1.31. |
| It was Greek to me. |
Julius Caesar
1.2.278. |
The wheel is come full circle.
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King Lear
5.3.175. |
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
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Macbeth
4.1.44-5. |
| At one fell swoop |
Macbeth
4.3.218. |
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
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Measure for Measure
5.1.530. |
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Harp not on that.
Harp not on that string. (Richard 3 4.4.364.)
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Measure for Measure
5.1.64. |
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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The Merchant of Venice
2.2.73. |
| That's meat and drink to me, now. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1.1.269. |
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that's neither here nor there.
'Tis neither here nor there. (Othello 4.3.57.)
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
1.4.98. |
| Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
2.2.4-5. |
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1.1.134 |
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
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Othello
1.1.65. |
But this denoted a foregone conclusion:
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Othello
3.3.426. |
a Fool's paradise
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Romeo and Juliet
2.4.175. |
I'll not budge an inch.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Induction.1.13. |
| I have been in such a pickle |
The Tempest
5.1.282. |
