Bard Phrases

Phrases

• Black and white minstrel
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• No holds barred
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• The Bard of Avon (Nickname of William Shakespeare)
• The Bard of Ayrshire (Nickname of Robert Burns)
• The Bard of Twickenham (Nickname of Alexander Pope)
• The Poet (Nickname of Etan Thomas)
• The Swan of Avon (Nickname of William Shakespeare)
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
• This above all: to thine own self be true (William Shakespeare)
• To be or not to be: that is the question (from a Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (from a sonnet by Shakespeare)