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A Daniel come to judgement
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A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
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A funny thing happened on the way to the
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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
A ministering angel shall my sister be
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A plague on both your houses
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
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All corners of the world
All that glisters is not gold
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
All's Well, That Ends Well
An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
And thereby hangs a tale
Anthony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
As cold as any stone
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As good luck would have it
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As merry as the day is long
As pure as the driven snow
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At one fell swoop
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Bag and baggage
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Beware the Ides of March
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Blow winds, and crack your cheeks
But for my own part, it was Greek to me
But screw your courage to the sticking-place
Come the three corners of the world in arms
Come what come may
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Comparisons are odorous
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Crack of doom
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
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Discretion is the better part of valour
Dish fit for the gods
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Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
Eaten out of house and home
Et tu, Brute
Even at the turning of the tide
Exceedingly well read
Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
Fancy free
Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
Flesh and blood
For ever and a day
Frailty, thy name is woman
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
Fringe
theatre
Full fathom five thy father lies ( from The Tempest by Shakespeare )
Globe
trotter
Good luck would have it
Good men and true
Green eyed monster
Halcyon days
Happiness is a cigar called
Hamlet
(
Hamlet
Cigars advertising slogan )
Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
He must needs go that the Devil drives
He will give the Devil his due
His beard was as white as snow
Hoist by your own petard
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
I bear a charmed life
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I have not slept one wink
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
If music be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
In my mind's eye, Horatio
In the twinkling of an eye
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
It beggar'd all description
It is meat and drink to me
King Lear
Lay it on with a trowel
Like the dickens
Love is blind
Loves Labour Lost
Main chance
Make haste
Makes your hair stands on end
Measure for Measure
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Midsummer Nights Dream
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
More honoured in the breach than in the observance
Much Ado About Nothing
Mum's the word
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ( from a poem by Shakespeare )
My salad days
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Neither here nor there
No more cakes and ale?
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good
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Now is the winter of our discontent
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the play by Shakespeare )
Off with his head
Oh, that way madness lies
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
Out of the jaws of death
Paperback
Writer
( Beatles song )
Play within a play
Pound of flesh
Pox on both your houses
Primrose path
Rhyme nor reason
Romeo and Juliet
Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ( play by Tom Stoppard )
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
Screw your courage to the sticking place
Sea change
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ( from a poem by Shakespeare )
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
Smooth talk
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Sorry sight
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Star crossed lovers
Stiffen the sinews
Such stuff as dreams are made on
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 Comedy of Errors
The Great Bird of the Galaxy ( Nickname of
writer
Gene Roddenberry )
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The
Poet
( Nickname of Etan Thomas )
The Scottish play
The Swan of Avon ( Nickname of William Shakespeare )
The Taming of the Shrew
The Winters Tale
The beast with two backs
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The course of true love never did run smooth
The darling buds of May
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The game is afoot
The game is up
The lady doth protest too much, methinks ( from
Hamlet
by Shakespeare )
The live-long day
The milk of human kindness
The play's the thing
The quality of mercy is not strained ( from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare )
The queen's English
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
There's method in my madness
Thereby hangs a tale
This above all: to thine own self be true ( William Shakespeare )
This is very midsummer madness
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
Though last, not least in love
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
Thus far into the bowels of the land
To be or not to be: that is the question ( from a
Hamlet
by Shakespeare )
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
Tower of strength
Twelfth Night
Under the greenwood tree
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ( from Henry V by Shakespeare )
We have seen better days
What a piece of work is man
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ( from a sonnet by Shakespeare )
When shall we three meet again?
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure
Woe is me