The 23 rd of April 1564 460 years William Shakespeare
Tuesday, the 23 rd of April 2024 Playwright William Shakespeare would have been 460 today This St George's Day also marks what would have been the 460th birthday of England's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare. His plays are still hailed as the pinnacle of literature and hundreds of his coined phrases are still in wide usage in modern Britain. The Bard's influence on our language and culture is still impossible to escape (sorry, GCSE students) and even those who "don't do Shakespeare" unwittingly channel his words in their daily lives. Ever found yourself muttering 'for goodness sake' as someone queue-jumps? Or perhaps having "too much of a good thing" has left you "puking" and a "sorry sight" ? These are just a handful of popular sayings that came courtesy of Shakespeare. Jess Denham
QUOTING SHAKESPEARE If you cannot understand my argument, and declare: It’s Greek to me, you are quoting Shakespeare. If you claim to be more sinned against than sinning , you are quoting Shakespeure. If you act more in sorrow than in anger , if your wish is father to the thought , if your lost property has vanished into thin air , you are quoting Shakespeare. If you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy , if you have played fast and loose , if you have been tongue-tied — a tower ol' strength — hoodwinked or in a pickle , if you have knitted your brows — made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play— slept not one wink—stood on ceremony — danced attendance on your lord and master — laughed yourself into stitches, had short shrift — cold comfort, or too much of a good thing , if you have seen better days , or lived in a fool’s paradise , why, be that as it may, the more fool you , for it is a foregone conclusion that you are as good luck would have it , quoting Shakespeare. If you think it is early days and clear out bag and baggage , if you think it is high time , and that that is the long and short of it , if you believe that the game is up , and that truth will out , even if it involves your own flesh and blood , if you lie low till the crack of doom because you suspect foul play , if you have teeth set on edge at one fell swoop — without rhyme or reason, then to give the devil his due if the truth were known for surely you have a tongue in your head , you are quoting Shakespeare. Even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing , if you wish I was dead as doornail , if you think I am an eyesore — a laughing stock — the devil incarnate — a stony-hearted villain bloody-minded , or a blinking idiot , then by Jove — O Lord —tut, tut! — for goodness' sake — what the dickens! — but me no buts— it is all one to me , for you are quoting Shakespeare... Bernard Levin
More words and phrases coined by the Bard - "Fancy-free" - A Midsummer Night's Dream - "Lie low" - Much Ado About Nothing - "Send packing" - Henry IV - "Foregone conclusion" - Othello - "A sorry sight" - Macbeth - "For goodness sake" - Henry VIII - "Good riddance" - The Merchant of Venice - "Neither here not there" - Othello - "Mum's the word" - Henry VI, Part II
- "What's done is done" - Macbeth - "Eaten out of house and home" - Henry IV, Part II - "Rant" - Hamlet - "Knock knock! Who's there?" - Macbeth - "With bated breath" - The Merchant of Venice - "A wild goose chase" - Romeo and Juliet - "Assassination" - Macbeth - "Too much of a good thing" - As You Like It - "A heart of gold" - Henry V - "Such stuff as dreams are made on" - The Tempest - "Fashionable" - Troilus and Cressida - "Puking" - As You Like It
- "Dead as a doornail" - Henry VI, Part II - "Not slept one wink" - Cymbeline - "The world's mine oyster" - The Merry Wives of Windsor - "Obscene" - Love's Labour's Lost - "Bedazzled" - The Taming of the Shrew - "In stitches" - Twelfth Night
- "- "Addiction" - Othello - "Faint-hearted" - Henry VI, Part I - "One fell swoop" - Macbeth - "Vanish into thin air" - Othello - "Swagger" - Henry V
- "Own flesh and blood" - Hamlet - "Zany" - Love's Labour's Lost - "Give the devil his due" - Henry IV, Part I - "There's method in my madness" - Hamlet - "Salad days" - Antony and Cleopatra - "Spotless reputation" - Richard II
- "Full circle" - King Lear - "All of a sudden" - The Taming of the Shrew - "Come what, come may" - Macbeth
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. What's done cannot be undone. Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
“ The Passionate Pilgrim” Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare; Youth is full of sport, age’s breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee.
“ All’s Well that Ends Well” Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend Under thy own life 's key; be check'd for silence , But never tax'd for speech. (Countess of Rousillon — Act I, Scene 1)
“ As You Like It” All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. And then the whining school—boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. (Jaques — Act 11, Scene 7)
“ Hamlet” Neither a borrower, nor lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all; to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. (Polonius — Act I, Scene 3)
“ Hamlet” What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither... (Hamlet — Act 11, Scene 2)
“ Hamlet” Be not tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: Suit the action to the word, the word to the Action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature. (Hamlet - Act 111, Scene 2)
“ Measure for Measure” But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. (Isabella - Act 11, Scene 2)
“ The Merchant of Venice” The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. (Lorenzo - Act V, Scene 1)
“ Othello” Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. (Iago - Act III, Scene 3)
“ Romeo and Juliet” One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.' (Benvolio - Act I, Scene 2)
“ Romeo and Juliet” What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet (Juliet, Act II, Scene 2)
“ Romeo and Juliet” Wisely and slow - they stumble that run fast." (Friar Laurence - Act II, Scene 3)
“ The Taming of the Shrew” Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice to change true rules for odd (old) inventions (Bianca - Act III, Scene 1)
“ The Taming of the Shrew” Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit. (Petruchio - Act IV, Scene 3)
“ The Tempest” We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero - Act IV, Scene 1)
“ Troilus and Cressida” Women are angels, wooing; Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. That she beloved knows naught that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. (Cressida - Act I, Scene 2)
“ Twelfth Night” Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. (Clown - Act I, Scene 5)
“ Twelfth Night” Song What is love? ’tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What’s to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty,— Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty, Youth’s a stuff will not endure. (Feste - Act II, Scene 3)
“ Twelfth Night” Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Malvolio - Act II, Scene 5)
“ Two Gentlemen of Verona” O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away! (Porteus - Act I, Scene 3)
“ Two Gentlemen of Verona” O heaven! Were man But constant, he were perfect. (Porteus - Act V, Scene 4)
Sonnet 57 So true a fool is love that in your will, Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.
Sonnet 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever—fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books , researchers will say this week.
Never criticise , unless you can do a better job.
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