Shakespearean Phrases

It's a well known fact that many of the colorful phrases we use in everyday life first appeared in plays by William Shakespeare. But do you remember which phrase appeared in which play?

Think you're a Shakespearean Scholar? Do you know your Banquo from your Horatio, your Viola from your Miranda? Test your knowledge and see how well you do compared to others. Ready?

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1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Romeo and Juliet
West Side Story
Sonnet #18
Much Ado About Nothing
2. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
The Tempest
Macbeth
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
3. A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse.
Henry IV
Richard III
Lord of the Rings
Othello
4. The game is up.
Sonnet #20
All's Well that Ends Well
Macbeth
Cymbeline
5. All that glitters is not gold.
Antony and Cleopatra
Arabian Nights
The Merchant of Venice
King Lear
6. Brevity is the soul of wit.
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
Winter's Tale
Twelfth Night
7. As good luck would have it
Measure for Measure
Love's Labours Lost
The Comedy of Errors
The Merry Wives of Windsor
8. Discretion is the better part of valour.
Henry IV
Two Gentlemen of Verona
King Lear
Troilus and Cressida
9. Vanish into thin air
Titus Andronicus
Measure for Measure
Othello
Hamlet
10. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
Henry V
Henry IV
King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing

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