Here’s are 30 more of the Bard’s memorable sayings still in use today.
- In the twinkling of an eye
- It was Greek to me
- Love is blind
- Make your hair stand on end
- Milk of human kindness
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Mum’s the word
- Out of the jaws of death
- Pound of flesh
- Rhyme nor reason
- Screw your courage to the sticking place
- Short shrift
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em
- Star crossed lovers
- Such stuff as dreams are made on
- The Devil incarnate
- The game is up
- The Queen’s English
- There’s method in my madness
- This is the short and the long of it
- To be or not to be, that is the question
- To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
- To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub
- Too much of a good thing
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
- Vanish into thin air
- Wear your heart on your sleeve
- What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- Wild goose chase
- Woe is me
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