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Shakespeare Quotes

Appendix

Appendix

Faux Shakespeare: The Bard coined his fair share of phrases, but in some cases he gets credit where no credit is due. Here is a collection of phrases commonly but mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare.

Household Words: A partial list of the words for which Shakespeare is the first authority in the Oxford English Dictionary. As Hamlet said to Polonious, "Words, words, words."

Good Enough to Call Your Own: Authors of all kinds have turned to the Bard for catch phrases and poetic profundities. Here’s a discussion of titles borrowed from Shakespeare.

Popular Quotes

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  • What's in a name? That which we call a rose
  • Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
  • The lady doth protest too much
  • If music be the food of love, play on
  • All the world's a stage
  • To be, or not to be
  • There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
  • To sleep, perchance to dream
  • O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
  • Such stuff as dreams are made on

Popular Themes

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  • expressions and idioms
  • love
  • death and sickness
  • deception
  • murder and assassination
  • wit
  • philosophy
  • supernatural phenomena
  • madness
  • family

Popular Speakers

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  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
  • Othello
  • Lear
  • Romeo
  • Iago
  • Horatio
  • Lady Macbeth
  • Brutus
  • Juliet

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  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
  • Julius Caesar
  • Othello
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • King Lear
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Richard III
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • As You Like It

See Also

  • All Quotes (Index)
  • Looking for Words Shakespeare coined?
  • Phrases Misattributed to Shakespeare
  • Appendix
  • Copyright Information

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