Words

Phrases

• Antony and Cleopatra
  • beggar all description: Act 2, Scene 2, Line 237
  • salad days: Act 1, Scene 5, Line 86
• As You Like It
  • bag and baggage: Act 3, Scene 2, Line 156
  • neither rhyme nor reason: Act 3, Scene 2, Line 376
• Hamlet
  • cruel... to be kind: Act 3, Scene 4, Line 194
  • mind's eye: Act 1, Scene 1, Line 125, Act 1, Scene 2, Line 190
  • more honored in the breach than the observance: Act 1, Scene 4, Line 18
  • more in sorrow than in anger: Act 1, Scene 2, Line 250
  • something rotten in the state of denmark: Act 1, Scene 4, Line 99
  • take arms against a sea of troubles: Act 3, Scene 1, Line 67
  • to be or not to be: Act 3, Scene 1, Line 64
  • [to go down] the primrose path: Act 1, Scene 3, Line 52
  • to the manner born: Act 1, Scene 4, Line 17
  • to thine ownself be true: Act 1, scene 3, Line 81
• King Henry IV, part 1
  • the game [is] afoot: Act 1, Scene 3, Line 208
• King Henry IV, part 2
  • eaten... out of house and home: Act 2, Scene 1, Line 28
• King Henry V
  • the game [is] afoot: Act 3, Scene 1, Line 32
• King John
  • play fast and loose: Act 3, Scene 1, Line 247
• King Lear
  • How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!: Act 1, Scene 4, Line 285
• King Richard III
  • tower of strength: Act 5, Scene 3, Line 13
• Love's Labours Lost
  • apple of [one's] eye: Act 5, Scene 2, Line 502
• Macbeth
  • be-all and the end-all: Act 1, Scene 7, Line 5
  • full of sound and fury: Act 5, Scene 5, Line 29
  • milk of human kindness: Act 1, Scene 5, Line 17
  • one fell swoop: Act 4, Scene 3, Line 258
• Measure for Measure
  • budge an inch: Act 3, Scene 1, Line 12
• Merchant of Venice
  • All that glitters is not gold: Act 2, Scene 7, Line 66
  • blinking idiot: Act 2, Scene 9, Line 53
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • apple of [one's] eye: Act 3, Scene 2, Line 107
• Othello
  • wear [one's] heart upon [one's] sleeve: Act 1, Scene 1, Line 65
• Romeo and Juliet
  • star-cross'd lovers: Prologue, Line 6
• Sonnet XXX
  • remembrance of things past
• The Taming of the Shrew
  • cold comfort: Act 4, Scene 1, Line 28
  • to kill...with kindness: Act 4, Scene 1, Line 196
• The Tempest
  • brave new world: Act 5, Scene 1, Line 205
  • into thin air: Act 4, Scene 1, Line 165
  • [to be] in a pickle: Act 5, Scene 1, Line 320 (and Line 321)
• Troilus and Cressida
  • good riddance: Act 2, Scene 1, Line 116
• The Winter's Tale
  • bag and baggage: Act 1, Scene 2, Line 246
• too many references: flesh and blood, foul play
• Unsorted:
  • caught red-handed
  • all the world's a stage
  • as white as the driven snow
  • bated breath
  • the course of true love never did run smooth
  • the green-eyed monster
  • household words
  • lovers and madmen
  • method in his madness
  • sweets for the sweet
  • violent delights have violent ends
  • Hamlet: Neither a borrower or a lender be (Act 1, Scene iii)
  • Hamlet: Frailty, thy name is woman (Act 1, Scene ii)
  • Hamlet: Good night, sweet prince (Act 5, Scene ii)
  • Hamlet: To hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature (Act 3, Scene ii)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lord, what fools these mortals be (Act 3, Scene ii)