We use so many Shakespeare cliches, and many times we aren’t even aware that these sayings came from his works. Do you think about Will when you are using these?

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  1. Parting is such sweet sorrow (Romeo and Juliet)
  2. Nothing can come of nothing (King Lear)
  3. Method in the madness (Hamlet)
  4. The world’s mine (my) oyster (Merry Wives of Windsor)
  5. I am constant as the Norther Star (Julius Caesar)
  6. The green eyed monster (Othello)
  7. A pound of flesh (Merchant of Venice)
  8. Cruel to be kind (Hamlet)
  9. Double double toil and trouble (Macbeth)
  10. Good riddance (Trolius and Cressida)
  11. He hath eaten me out of house and home (Henry the Fourth)
  12. I will wear my heart upon my sleeve (Othello)
  13. Knock knock, who’s there? (Macbeth)
  14. Masters of their fate (Julius Caesar)
  15. One fell swoop (Macbeth)
  16. Pomp and circumstance (Othello)
  17. Strange bedfellows (The Tempest)
  18. The be all and the end all
  19. To be or not to be (Hamlet)
  20. To thine own self be true (Hamlet)
  21. Too much of a good thing (As You Like It)
  22. We have seen better days (As You Like It)

If you did not have immense respect for Shakespeare before, perhaps you do now. And these are but a few of hundreds of famous quotes from the works of this literary master of the 16th century.

Source: http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/

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