10 Shakespeare Quotes You Use Every Day
1. A forgone
conclusion. Othello: "But this denoted a foregone conclusion: 'Tis a
shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream." Othello, 1604
2. Fair play. Miranda:
"Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, and I would call it,
fair play." The Tempest, 1610
3. Hot-blooded.
Falstaff: "The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on. Now,
the hot-blooded-Gods assist me!" Merry Wives of Windsor, 1600
4. I have not
slept one wink. Pisiano: "O gracious lady, since I received command to
do this business I have not slept one wink." Cymbeline, 1611
5. Love is blind.
Jessica: "But love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that
themselves commit…" The Merchant Of Venice, 1596
6. Make your hair
stand on end. Hamlet: "I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like
stars, start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and
each particular hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful
porpentine." Hamlet, 1602
7. Rhyme nor
reason. Dromio of Syracuse: "Was there ever any man thus beaten out of
season, when in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason?" Comedy
of Errors, 1590
8. Too much of a
good thing. Rosalind: "Why then, can one desire too much of a good
thing?" As You Like It, 1600
9. We have seen
better days. Flavius: "We have seen better days. Let each take some;
Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more: Thus part we rich in sorrow,
parting poor." Timon of Athens, 1607
10. Wild goose
chase. Mercutio: "Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have
done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure,
I have in my whole five." Romeo and Juliet, 1592
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