Surprising Sayings We Owe to William Shakespeare

The Stir ^ | 9-17-2011 | Jill Baughman

[Prospero]

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our lives are rounded with a little sleep. - Prospero - “The Tempest.”

[merryberry]

I Believe you must be “in your cups”...Romeo and Juliet

[merryberry]

I Believe you must be “in your cups”...Romeo and Juliet

[TsonicTsunami08]

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers!

[Ciexyz]

A plague on both your houses. Often rendered incorrectly as a POX on both your houses. ~ Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet

[AwesomePossum]

A favorite from the Bard......."Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike. I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."

8:}

[merryberry]

Did he/you say light BULB? You talkin about those things we put in our lights and give off good light and some heat in the Northeast winter...Shakespeare? Talked lighbulbs. I think Gore just fainted.

[count-your-change]

A common confusion in the sign....It’s bated breath as in weak and hesitant not baited...something done to mouse traps and fish hooks, not breath.

[Allegra]

“Fo shizzle mah nizzle” (I momentarily forget what play that was in.)

"Merchant of Da Hood," I think.

[Allegra]

“Fo shizzle mah nizzle” (I momentarily forget what play that was in.)

Or was it "The Taming of the Ho?"

[merryberry]

and make worms meat... of you.... Mercutio

[null and void]

I tried to get into Shakespeare, but it was just too full of clichés...

[gogogodzilla]

I thought it was in Henry XXIV...

;-P

[FlyingEagle]

To thine own self be true.

Act1, Sc3, Hamlet

[merryberry]

and make worms meat... of you.... Mercutio

[stormhill]

look for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man

[stormhill]

That’s one of my favorite quotes. It begins with “Neither a borrower nor a lender be...”

[Acrobat]

I wooed thee with my sword

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

[Smokin' Joe]

‘hairs’ breadth ‘scapes’ (Othello)

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Romans previously put it something like “Graecum est; non potus legum” (it’s Greek; it can’t be read).