Oscar Wilde quotes. Phrases coined by William Shakespeare. Barry Manilow may claim to write the songs, but it was William Shakespeare who coined the phrases - he contributed more phrases and sayings to the English language than any other individual, and most of them are still in daily use. Here's a collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare. Most of these were the Bard's own work, but he wasn't averse to stealing a good line occasionally and a few of these were 'popularised by' rather than 'coined by' Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's phrases grouped by play: A Midsummer Night's Dream As You Like It Hamlet Macbeth Full list of Shakesperian phrases: A countenance more in sorrow than in anger A Daniel come to judgement A dish fit for the gods A fool's paradise A foregone conclusion A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse A ministering angel shall my sister be A plague on both your houses A rose by any other name would smell as sweet A sea change A sorry sight Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety All of a sudden.
If at first you don't succeed... Posted by Lou on June 09, 2000 In Reply to: If at first you don't succeed... Posted by ESC on June 08, 2000 : "IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN. Don't give up too easily; persistence pays off in the end. The proverb has been traced back to 'Teacher's Manual' by American educator Thomas H. I could be wrong but I rember reading somewhere [at school] that it was first attributed to Robert the Bruce. Could be a load of Bollocks but I definitely heard it somwhere. November 2005. Fishing for the moon (1907) First line: A dreamy little youngster lived beside a quiet lakeChorus: He went fishing for the moon Unrelenting the gaiety here.
Result of Johnson’s Dictionary. The latest rubbernecker: to fi´•shify. African American woman, seated on ground, fishing, at the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. Mark Scroggins noted my growling scurrility, growing vasty and unrebuff’d. 1) stile 2) gauze 3) goosestepping &c. Young woman holding a fish on a fishing line, sitting in a rowboat in a body of water with two other women. (1928) Sontag, on ‘becoming an individual’: “One way . . . is through accretion, composition, fabrication, creation. “You spend so much time . . . protesting against banality. The notion of being ‘shocked’ as “a dullard’s substitute for the pleasures of the imagination.” Grief, death-grief: “I felt as if I had gotten loose in my skin. “You are a great comic fragment.” “It is the possession of a role which provides the impetus to go out in the world, to act at all.
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