Things we say today that we owe to Shakespeare. Can you add to the list.

[Seedersandleechers]

[HopeHoops]

1. "Fuck THIS noise!"

Well, that's what I said whenever I was assigned to read the stuff.

[Seedersandleechers]

2. That's too bad

I loved reading Shakespeare.

[HopeHoops]

17. It just isn't 9th grade material. "Flowers for Algernon" was more my thing.

[oneshooter]

3. "Kill all lawyers" A thought I personally tend to agree with. n/t

[Seedersandleechers]

4. You might not mean that

if in fact you ever need one.

[Arugula Latte]

6. That line means the opposite of what you think it does. It's intended to show lawyers valuable role.

"The first thing we do," said the Dick the Butcher character in Shakespeare's Henry VI, is "kill all the lawyers." Contrary to popular belief, the proposal was not designed to restore sanity to commercial life. Rather, it was intended to eliminate those who might stand in the way of a contemplated revolution -- thus underscoring the important role that lawyers can play in society.

[WolverineDG]

8. Taken completely out of context

and doesn't mean what you think it does.

dg

[Bake]

21. Exactly!

If you want to get around the law or do away with the law, kill all the lawyers.

:hi:

Bake, Esq.

[WolverineDG]

22. ...

I just love how folks bash lawyers, until they need one. :) :hi:

dg, Esq

[Bake]

23. Yep. Yes indeedy!!

Hi Woverine!!

:hi:

Bake

[Bake]

20. I thought that would come up. Thanks a lot.

Next time some corporation's shitty product kills one of your loved ones, call an accountant.

Bake, Esq.

[Arugula Latte]

5. "There's the rub" / "eaten me out of house and home" / "et tu, xxx"

"good riddance"
"Greek to me"

and many more

[IcyPeas]

7. many a truth is told in jest

[WolverineDG]

9. You'll love this site then

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/08/how-shakespearean-are-you/

I plugged in a paragraph from one of my blogs & scored 91%! :wow:

dg

[Swede]

10. "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"

and "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"

[timtom]

29. "Cry havoc..."

One of my all-time faves.

[WolverineDG]

36. Sounds better in the original Klingon

:rofl:

Gotta love a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon!

dg

[Aristus]

11. Will Shakespeare coined a lot of household words.

Including the phrase "household words".

Truth is, it's probable that a lot of the words and phrases we attribute to him are actually ones that he popularized, rather than coined. A lot of his more famous quotes may actually have been in common use in his day, but only first appeared in print (or on stage, actually) because of The Bard.

[pokerfan]

12. Yadda yadda yadda

Sure, Seinfeld made it famous but The Bard was first. From Loves Labours Lost Act IV Scene II...

HOLOFERNES

The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe
as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in
the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;
and anon falleth like yaddath yaddath yaddath.

[Aristus]

13. Nice try, but I believe the words you were looking for are

"like a crab on the face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth."

B-)

[pokerfan]

14. You must have different edition

:P

[pokerfan]

15. I just noticed that the author/artist misspelled 'bated'

:shrug:

[PurityOfEssence]

33. Love that slip, don't you?

It's a shortening of "abated", meaning that someone watching the event in question was holding his breath in anticipation. Not getting that point shows one as repeating by wrote, not understanding the idea in question.

[Javaman]

16. Anything that begins with "un". Unpopular, unappealing, etc. nt

[siligut]

18. Unanimous?

:P How about, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."? Though maybe, when it is used, it is acknowledged that it is Shakespearean, unlike some of these others.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. 'A fool's paradise', 'beware the ides of March', 'crack of doom', 'dog will have its day', etc.

Really, I have a list of 150 everyday expressions that came from Shakespeare.

http://www.lomonico.com/bookch4.html

[pokerfan]

24. I like the joke

A guys walks out of the theater after seeing Hamlet for the first time. “I don’t know why everybody thinks Hamlet is such a well-written play,” he says. “It is full of clichés.”

[meegbear]

25. Spongeworthy ... Oh SNAP! ...

Oh No You DIDN'T!

[Recovered Repug]

26. "Get off my lawn you fucking hippie!" was in Romeo & Juliette

I believe - said by Juliette's father to Romeo.

[Burma Jones]

27. We are such stuff as dreams are made on

What the dickens
Salad Days
Be All and End All
Cruel to be Kind.......

And so much more

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. What fools these mortals be.

Slaughtered in The Joy of Cooking as, "What foods these morsels be!"

:rofl:

Lots of book titles like Fatal Vision, Uneasy Lies the Head, Good Night Sweet Prince.

[timtom]

30. "Who steals my purse steals trash..." (NT)

[PurityOfEssence]

31. revenge is a dish best served cold

It turns up now and then...

(Othello, spoken by Iago, the Ensign)

[pokerfan]

37. I thought it was Klingon

:P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge#Proverbially

http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2010/09/20100923_me_15.mp3

[MarianJack]

32. 2 & 1/2

"To be or not to be"

"Once more untoo the breech, dear friends, once more".

People believe that Hamlety said "Methinks the lady doth protsteth too much". It was actually his mother who said "The lady doth protest too much, methinks".

I may be off a word or 2, but the gist is right.

PEACE!

[Odin2005]

34. "Caesar. Beware the Ides of March!"

We actually did "Julius Caesar" in high school and I was Caesar.

[meow2u3]

35. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Hamlet

Also, from the same play: Get thee to a nunnery.

[Ivan Sputnik]

38. "Oh, that way madness lies"

Something I say to myself quite frequently.

(King Lear, Act 3, scene 4, line 21)