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Inventors get a lot of love. Thomas Edison is held up as a tinkering genius. Steve Jobs is considered a saint in Silicon Valley. Hedy Lamar, meanwhile, may have been a Hollywood star but a new book makes clear her real legacy is in inventing the foundations of encryption. But while all these people invented things, it’s possible to invent something even more fundamental. Take Shakespeare: he invented words. And he invented more words—words that continue to shape the English language—than anyone else. By a long shot.

But what does it mean to “invent” words? How many words did Shakespeare invent? What kind of words? And which words are those exactly? Rather than just listing all the words Shakespeare invented, this post digs deeper into the how and the why (or “wherefore”) of Shakespeare’s literary creations.

How Many Words Did Shakespeare Invent?

1700! My, what a perfectly round number! Such a large and perfectly round number is misleading at best, and is more likely just wrong—there is in fact a bunch of debate about the accuracy of this number.

So who’s to blame for the uncertainty around the number of words Shakespeare invented? For starters, we can blame the Oxford English Dictionary. This famous dictionary (often called the OED for short) is famous, in part, because it provides incredibly thorough definitions of words, but also because it identifies the first time each word actually appeared in written English. Shakespeare appears as the first documented user of more words than any other writer, making it convenient to assume that he was the creator of all of those words.

In reality, though, many of these words were probably part of everyday discourse in Elizabethan England. So it’s highly likely that Shakespeare didn’t invent all of these words; he just produced the first preserved record of some of them. Ryan Buda, a writer at Letterpile, explains it like this:

But most likely, the word was in use for some time before it is seen in the writings of Shakespeare. The fact that the word first appears there does not necessarily mean that he made it up himself, but rather, he could have borrowed it from his peers or from conversations he had with others.

However, while Shakespeare might have been just the first person to write down some words, he definitely did create many words himself, plenty of which we still use to this day. The list a ways down below contains the 420 words that almost certainly originated from Shakespeare himself.

But all this leads to another question. What does it even mean to “invent” a word?

How Did Shakespeare Invent Words?

Some writers invent words in the same way Thomas Edison invented light bulbs: they cobble together bits of sound and create entirely new words without any meaning or relation to existing words. Lewis Carroll does in the first stanza of his “Jabberwocky” poem:

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Carroll totally made up words like “brillig,” “slithy,” “toves,” and “mimsy”; the first stanza alone contains 11 of these made-up words, which are known as nonce words. Words like these aren’t just meaningless, they’re also disposable, intended to be used just once.

Shakespeare did not create nonce words. He took an entirely different approach. When he invented words, he did it by working with existing words and altering them in new ways. More specifically, he would create new words by:

Conjoining two words
Changing verbs into adjectives
Changing nouns into verbs
Adding prefixes to words
Adding suffixes to words

The most exhaustive take on Shakespeare’s invented words comes from a nice little 874-page book entitled The Shakespeare Key by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Here’s how they explain Shakespeare’s literary innovations:

Shakespeare, with the right and might of a true poet, and with his peculiar royal privilege as king of all poets, has minted several words that deserve to become current in our language. He coined them for his own special use to express his own special meanings in his own special passages; but they are so expressive and so well framed to be exponents of certain particulars in meanings common to us all, that they deserve to become generally adopted and used.

We can call what Shakespeare did to create new words “minting,” “coining” or “inventing.” Whatever term we use to describe it, Shakespeare was doing things with words that no one had ever thought to do before, and that’s what matters.

Shakespeare Didn’t Invent Nonsense Words

Though today readers often need the help of modern English translations to fully grasp the nuance and meaning of Shakespeare’s language, Shakespeare’s contemporary audience would have had a much easier go of it. Why? Two main reasons.

First, Shakespeare was part of a movement in English literature that introduced more prose into plays. (Earlier plays were written primarily in rhyming verse.) Shakespeare’s prose was similar to the style and cadence of everyday conversation in Elizabethan England, making it natural for members of his audience to understand.

In addition, the words he created were comprehensible intuitively because, once again, they were often built on the foundations of already existing words, and were not just unintelligible combinations of sound. Take “congreeted” for example. The prefix “con” means with, and “greet” means to receive or acknowledge someone.

It therefore wasn’t a huge stretch for people to understand this line:

That, face to face and royal eye to eye.
You have congreeted.

(Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2)

Shakespeare also made nouns into verbs. He was the first person to use friend as a verb, predating Mark Zuckerberg by about 395 years.

And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
May do, to express his love and friending to you

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5)

Other times, despite his proclivity for making compound words, Shakespeare reached into his vast Latin vocabulary for loanwords.

His heart fracted and corroborate.

(Henry V, Act 2, Scene 1)

Here the Latin word fractus means “broken.” Take away the –us and add in the English suffix –ed, and a new English word is born.

New Words Are Nothing New

Shakespeare certainly wasn’t the first person to make up words. It’s actually entirely commonplace for new words to enter a language. We’re adding new words and terms to our “official” dictionaries every year. In the past few years, the Merriam-Webster dictionary has added several new words and phrases, like these:

bokeh
elderflower
fast fashion
first world problem
ginger
microaggression
mumblecore
pareidolia
ping
safe space
wayback
wayback machine
woo-woo

So inventing words wasn’t something unique to Shakespeare or Elizabethan England. It’s still going on all the time.

But Shakespeare Invented a Lot of New Words

So why did Shakespeare have to make up hundreds of new words? For starters, English was smaller in Shakespeare’s time. The language contained many fewer words, and not enough for a literary genius like Shakespeare. How many words? No one can be sure. One estimates, one from Encyclopedia Americana, puts the number at 50,000-60,000, likely not including medical and scientific terms.

During Shakespeare’s time, the number of words in the language began to grow. Edmund Weiner, deputy chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, explains it this way:

The vocabulary of English expanded greatly during the early modern period. Writers were well aware of this and argued about it. Some were in favour of loanwords to express new concepts, especially from Latin. Others advocated the use of existing English words, or new compounds of them, for this purpose. Others advocated the revival of obsolete words and the adoption of regional dialect.

In Shakespeare’s collected writings, he used a total of 31,534 different words. Whatever the size of the English lexicon at the time, Shakespeare was in command of a substantial portion of it. Jason Kottke estimates that Shakespeare knew around 66,534 words, which suggests Shakespeare was pushing the boundaries of English vocab as he knew it. He had to make up some new words.

The Complete List of Words Shakespeare Invented

Compiling a definitive list of every word that Shakespeare ever invented is impossible. But creating a list of the words that Shakespeare almost certainly invented can be done. We generated list of words below by starting with the words that Shakespeare was the first to use in written language, and then applying research that has identified which words were probably in everyday use during Shakespeare’s time. The result are 420 bona fide words minted, coined, and invented by Shakespeare, from “academe” to “zany”:

academe
accessible
accommodation
addiction
admirable
aerial
airless
amazement
anchovy
arch-villain
auspicious
bacheolorship
barefaced
baseless
batty
beachy
bedroom
belongings
birthplace
black-faced
bloodstained
bloodsucking
blusterer
bodikins
braggartism
brisky
broomstaff
budger
bump
buzzer
candle holder
catlike
characterless
cheap
chimney-top
chopped
churchlike
circumstantial
clangor
cold-blooded
coldhearted
compact
consanguineous
control
coppernose
countless
courtship
critical
cruelhearted
Dalmatian
dauntless
dawn
day’s work
deaths-head
defeat
depositary
dewdrop
dexterously
disgraceful
distasteful
distrustful
dog-weary
doit (a Dutch coin: ‘a pittance’)
domineering
downstairs
dwindle
East Indies
embrace
employer
employment
enfranchisement
engagement
enrapt
epileptic
equivocal
eventful
excitement
expedience
expertness
exposure
eyedrop
eyewink
fair-faced
fairyland
fanged
fap
far-off
farmhouse
fashionable
fashionmonger
fat-witted
fathomless
featureless
fiendlike
fitful
fixture
fleshment
flirt-gill
flowery
fly-bitten
footfall
foppish
foregone
fortune-teller
foul mouthed
Franciscan
freezing
fretful
full-grown
fullhearted
futurity
gallantry
garden house
generous
gentlefolk
glow
go-between
grass plot
gravel-blind
gray-eyed
green-eyed
grief-shot
grime
gust
half-blooded
heartsore
hedge-pig
hell-born
hint
hobnail
homely
honey-tongued
hornbook
hostile
hot-blooded
howl
hunchbacked
hurly
idle-headed
ill-tempered
ill-used
impartial
imploratory
import
in question
inauspicious
indirection
indistinguishable
inducement
informal
inventorially
investment
invitation
invulnerable
jaded
juiced
keech
kickie-wickie
kitchen-wench
lackluster
ladybird
lament
land-rat
laughable
leaky
leapfrog
lewdster
loggerhead
lonely
long-legged
love letter
lustihood
lustrous
madcap
madwoman
majestic
malignancy
manager
marketable
marriage bed
militarist
mimic
misgiving
misquote
mockable
money’s worth
monumental
moonbeam
mortifying
motionless
mountaineer
multitudinous
neglect
never-ending
newsmonger
nimble-footed
noiseless
nook-shotten
obscene
ode
offenseful
offenseless
Olympian
on purpose
oppugnancy
outbreak
overblown
overcredulous
overgrowth
overview
pageantry
pale-faced
passado
paternal
pebbled
pedant
pedantical
pendulous
pignut
pious
please-man
plumpy
posture
prayerbook
priceless
profitless
Promethean
protester
published
puking (disputed)
puppy-dog
pushpin
quarrelsome
radiance
rascally
rawboned
reclusive
refractory
reinforcement
reliance
remorseless
reprieve
resolve
restoration
restraint
retirement
revokement
revolting
ring carrier
roadway
roguery
rose-cheeked
rose-lipped
rumination
ruttish
sanctimonious
satisfying
savage
savagery
schoolboy
scrimer
scrubbed
scuffle
seamy
self-abuse
shipwrecked
shooting star
shudder
silk stocking
silliness
skim milk
skimble-skamble
slugabed
soft-hearted
spectacled
spilth
spleenful
sportive
stealthy
stillborn
successful
suffocating
tanling
tardiness
time-honored
title page
to arouse
to barber
to bedabble
to belly
to besmirch
to bet
to bethump
to blanket
to cake
to canopy
to castigate
to cater
to champion
to comply
to compromise
to cow
to cudgel
to dapple
to denote
to dishearten
to dislocate
to educate
to elbow
to enmesh
to enthrone
to fishify
to glutton
to gnarl
to gossip
to grovel
to happy
to hinge
to humor
to impede
to inhearse
to inlay
to instate
to lapse
to muddy
to negotiate
to numb
to offcap
to operate
to out-Herod
to out-talk
to out-villain
to outdare
to outfrown
to outscold
to outsell
to outweigh
to overpay
to overpower
to overrate
to palate
to pander
to perplex
to petition
to rant
to reverb
to reword
to rival
to sate
to secure
to sire
to sneak
to squabble
to subcontract
to sully
to supervise
to swagger
to torture
to un muzzle
to unbosom
to uncurl
to undervalue
to undress
to unfool
to unhappy
to unsex
to widen
tortive
traditional
tranquil
transcendence
trippingly
unaccommodated
unappeased
unchanging
unclaimed
unearthy
uneducated
unfrequented
ungoverned
ungrown
unhelpful
unhidden
unlicensed
unmitigated
unmusical
unpolluted
unpublished
unquestionable
unquestioned
unreal
unrivaled
unscarred
unscratched
unsolicited
unsullied
unswayed
untutored
unvarnished
unwillingness
upstairs
useful
useless
valueless
varied
varletry
vasty
vulnerable
watchdog
water drop
water fly
well-behaved
well-bred
well-educated
well-read
wittolly
worn out
wry-necked
yelping
zany

Words That Shakespeare Invented – Resource List

10 Words Shakespeare Never Invented – Merriam-Webster does a great job dismantling myths. This article, in particular, tells you which words Shakespeare probably didn’t invent.
40 Words You Can Trace Back To William Shakespeare – Buzzfeed disregards the “never invented” words from Merriam, but does add a disclaimer: “That doesn’t necessarily mean he invented every word.”
Invented Words – This page was the center of a disputatious brouhaha with the aforementioned Buzzfeed. As it stands, however, Google likes to deliver this as a top result when you search for “Words Shakespeare Invented.”
20 Words We Owe to Shakespeare – I like the way that the author of this article draws a parallel between Shakespeare and the LOL generation.
Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare – This is a lengthy and straightforward list that mostly contains phrases rather than individual words.
21 everyday phrases that come straight from Shakespeare’s plays – This is a helpful resource due to the explanation of each phrase.

Words, words, words.

(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)

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William Shakespeare used more than 20,000 words in his plays and poems, and his works provide the first recorded use of over 1,700 words in the English language. It is believed that he may have invented or introduced many of these words himself, often by combining words, changing nouns into verbs, adding prefixes or suffixes, and so on. Some words stuck around and some didn’t.

Although lexicographers are continually discovering new origins and earliest usages of words, below are listed words and definitions we still use today that are widely attributed to Shakespeare.

Shakespeare’s Words A-Z

Alligator: (n) a large, carnivorous reptile closely related to the crocodile
Romeo and Juliet, Act 5 Scene 1

Bedroom: (n) a room for sleeping; furnished with a bed
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2 Scene 2

Critic: (n) one who judges merit or expresses a reasoned opinion
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 3 Scene 1

Downstairs: (adv) on a lower floor; down the steps
Henry IV Part 1, Act 2 Scene 4

Eyeball: (n) the round part of the eye; organ for vision
Henry VI Part 1, Act 4 Scene 7

Fashionable: (adj) stylish; characteristic of a particular period
Troilus and Cressida, Act 3 Scene 3

Gossip: (v) to talk casually, usually about others
The Comedy of Errors, Act 5 Scene 1

Hurry: (v) to act or move quickly
The Comedy of Errors, Act 5 Scene 1

Inaudible: (adj) not heard; unable to be heard
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 5 Scene 3

Jaded: (adj) worn out; bored or past feeling
Henry VI Part 2, Act 4 Scene 1

Kissing: (ppl adj) touching with the lips; exchanging kisses
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5 Scene 2

Lonely: (adj) feeling sad due to lack of companionship
Coriolanus, Act 4 Scene 1

Manager: (n) one who controls or administers; person in charge
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 1 Scene 2

Nervy: (adj) sinewy or strong; bold; easily agitated
Coriolanus, Act 2 Scene 1

Obscene: (adj) repulsive or disgusting; offensive to one’s morality
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 1 Scene 1

Puppy dog: (n) a young, domestic dog
King John, Act 2 Scene 1

Questioning: (n) the act of inquiring or interrogating
As You Like It, Act 5 Scene 4

Rant: (v) to speak at length in inflated or extravagant language
Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 1

Skim milk: (n) milk with its cream removed
Henry IV Part 1, Act 2 Scene 3

Traditional: (adj) conventional; long-established, bound by tradition
Richard III, Act 3 Scene 1

Undress: (v) to remove clothes or other covering
The Taming of the Shrew, Induction Scene 2

Varied: (adj) incorporating different types or kinds; diverse
Titus Andronicus, Act 3 Scene 1

Worthless: (adj) having no value or merit; contemptible
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 4 Scene 2

Xantippe: (n) shrewish wife of Socrates; figuratively, a bad-tempered woman
The Taming of the Shrew, Act 1 Scene 2

Yelping: (adj) uttering sharp, high-pitched cries
Henry VI Part 1, Act 4 Scene 2

Zany: (n) clown’s assistant; performer who mimics another’s antics
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5 Scene 2

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Want to know all about the words Shakespeare invented? We’ve got you covered.

In all of his works – the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems – Shakespeare uses 17,677 different words.

How Many Words Did Shakespeare Invent?

Across all of his written works, it’s estimated that words invented by Shakespeare number as many as 1,700. We say these are words invented by Shakespeare , though in reality many of these 1,700 words would likely have been in common use during the Elizabethan and Jacobean era, just not written down prior to Shakespeare using them in his plays, sonnets and poems. In these cases Shakespeare would have been the first known person to document these words in writing.

Historian Jonathan Hope also points out that Victorian scholars who read texts for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary read Shakespeare’s texts more thoroughly than most, and cited him more often, meaning Shakespeare is often credited with the first use of words which can be found in other writers.

Examples Of Commonly Used Words Shakespeare Created

It is Shakespeare who is credited with creating the below list of words that we still use in our daily speech – some of them frequently.

accommodation

aerial

amazement

apostrophe

assassination

auspicious

baseless

bloody

bump

castigate

changeful

clangor

control (noun)

countless

courtship

critic

critical

dexterously

dishearten

dislocate

dwindle

eventful

exposure

fitful

frugal

generous

gloomy

gnarled

hurry

impartial

inauspicious

indistinguishable

invulnerable

lapse

laughable

lonely

majestic

misplaced

monumental

multitudinous

obscene

palmy

perusal

pious

premeditated

radiance

reliance

road

sanctimonious

seamy

sportive

submerge

suspicious

Along with these everyday words invented by Shakespeare, he also created a number of words in his plays that never quite caught on in the same way… Shakespearean words like ‘Armgaunt’, ‘Eftes’, ‘Impeticos’, ‘Insisture’, ‘Pajock’, ‘Pioned’ ‘Ribaudred’ and ‘Wappened’. We do have some ideas as to what these words may mean, though much is guesswork. Watch the video below for more insight into words Shakespeare invented that have been lost in the mists of time:

And it wasn’t just words that Shakespeare created, documented, or brought into common usage – he also put words together and created a host of new phrases. Read all about the phrases that Shakespeare invented here. And see our complete Shakespeare dictionary, which lists hundreds of commonly used Shakespeare’s words that arent; so common today, along with a simple definition.

Shakespeare words – see handwritten phrases and words Shakespeare invented

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What do you like to do in your spare time? Us… well, we get our reading heads on, light the fire, pour a glass of malmsy and work our way through our most-favourite plays and sonnets by William Shakespeare, pulling out some of our most-favourite words along the way. To share with you all, of course. Just because.

So, here you go. 50 words that appear in Shakespeare’s texts that we love for no particular reason at all. We hope you enjoy slotting some kicky-wickys, noddles, welkins and buzzers into your every day conversations (go on, we know you can do it).

1. Hiems (n.)

The personification of Winter, this word is used twice by Shakespeare, in Love’s Labour’s Lost (‘This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring; the one maintained by the owl, the other by the cuckoo. Ver, begin.) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (‘And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown.’).

2. Malmsey (n.)

A sweet, fortified wine (‘Nay then, two treys, and if you grow so nice, Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice!’ Love’s Labour’s Lost).

Don’t we look pretty when good old Hiems brings us snow?

3. Sneap (n.)

Snub, reproof, rebuke (‘My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.’ Henry IV, Part II).

4. Sluggardiz’d (v.)

To be made into an idler (‘I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home’ The Two Gentlemen of Verona).

5. Puissance (n.)

Meaning power, or might (‘Cousin, go draw our puissance together.’ King John).

William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, 1623 (Munro First Folio). Photographer: Pete Le May.

6. Mobbled (adj.)

With face muffled up, veiled (‘But who, O who had seen the mobbled queen’ (Hamlet).

9. Egregious (adj.)

Remarkably good or great (of things) / striking, significant (of events and utterances) – ‘Except..thou do give to me egregious Ransome’ Henry V.

10. Consanguineous (adj.)

Of the same blood, related by blood, akin; of or pertaining to those so related (‘Am not I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?’ Twelfth Night).

11. Caper (v.)

To dance with joy, to leap with delight (‘No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee caper. Ha! Higher! Ha! Ha! Excellent!’ Twelfth Night).

12. Expiate (v.)

To bring to an end (‘When in thee time’s furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.’ Sonnet 22).

13. Mated (adj.)

Bewildered, confused (‘I think you are all mated, or stark mad.’ The Comedy of Errors).

14. Foison (n.)

Abundance, plenty, profusion (‘All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.’ The Tempest).

15. Guileful (adj.)

Full of guile, deceitful, devious, as spoken in Henry VI, Part I – ‘Amongst the soldiers this is muttered: That here you maintain several factions, And whilst a field should be dispatched and fought, You are disputing of your generals. One would have ling’ring wars, with little cost; Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings; A third thinks, without expense at all, By guileful fair words peace may be obtained. Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your honours new-begot.’

16. Bacchanal (n.)

Dance in honour of Bacchus, the God of Wine – ‘Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals, And celebrate our drink?’ (Antony and Cleopatra).

‘Unbind my hands, I’ll pull them off myself,
Yea, all my raiment to my petticoat.’

– Bianca, The Taming of Shrew

Evelyn Miller as Bianca in Maria Gaitanidi’s The Taming of the Shrew in 2020 in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Photographer: Johan Persson.

17. Raiment (n.)

Clothing, vestments (as mentioned in The Taming of the Shrew). Clothes are also referred to as ‘Habiliments’ in the same play.

18. Welkin (n.)

The apparent arch or vault of heaven overhead; the sky, the firmament. As stated in Richard II (‘Amaze the welkin with your broken staves’), The Taming of the Shrew (‘Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them.’) and Twelfth Night (‘But we shall make the welkin dance indeed?’).

19. Gamesome (adj.)

Sportive, merry, playful (‘For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, But slow in speech’ The Taming of the Shrew).

20. Noddle (n.)

The back of the head (‘Doubt not her care should be To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool.’ The Taming of the Shrew).

21. Fleshment (n.)

The excitement associated with a successful beginning (‘And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit, Drew on me here again.’ King Lear).

22. Sceptered (adj.)

Invested with royal authority.

‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,–
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

– Richard II

Richard II, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 2019. Photographer: Ingrid Pollard.

23. Gratulate (v.)

Greet, welcome, salute (‘To gratulate thy plenteous bosom.’ Timon of Athens).

24. Peregrinate (v.)

Travel or wander from place to place (‘Too peregrinate, as I may call it.’ Love’s Labour’s Lost).

25. Kicky-wicky (n.)

Girl-friend, wife (‘That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home’ All’s Well That Ends Well).

26. Bawcock (n.)

Fine fellow, good chap (‘I’fecks, Why, that’s my bawcock.’ The Winter’s Tale).

27. Buzzer (n.)

Rumour-monger, gossiper (‘And wants not buzzers to infect his ear With pestilent speeches of his father’s death’ Hamlet).

28. Gallimaufry (n.)

Complete mixture, every sort, a medley, hotchpotch (‘He loves the gallimaufry’ The Merry Wives of Windsor).

29. Garboil (n.)

Trouble, disturbance, commotion, as Antony says to Cleopatra, ‘She’s dead, my queen. Look here, at thy sovereign leisure read The garboils she awaked. At last, best, See when and where she died.’

30. Miching (adj.)

Sneaking, sulking, lurking – ‘Marry, this is miching mallecho. That means mischief.’ (Hamlet).

31. Meed (n.)

Reward, prize, recompense (‘If you are hired for meed, go back again, And I will send you to my brother Gloucester’ Richard III).

32. Affy (v.)

To have confidence or trust in (‘Marcus Andronicus, so I do affy, In they uprightness and integrity’ Titus Andronicus).

33. Candle-waster (n.)

One who wastes candles by sitting up all night, probably not a reveller, as some have supposed, but a nocturnal student; a bookworm.

‘Bring me a father that so loved his child,
Whose joy of her is overwhelm’d like mine,
And bid him speak of patience;
Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine
And let it answer every strain for strain,
As thus for thus and such a grief for such,
In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:
If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,
Bid sorrow wag, cry ‘hem!’ when he should groan,
Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk
With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,
And I of him will gather patience.’

– Much Ado About Nothing

Maybe candle-wasters could be found in our Sam Wanamaker Playhouse! Photographer: Pete Le May.

34. Questant (n.)

Seeker, searcher, someone engaged in a quest.

‘No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart
Will not confess he owes the malady
That doth my life besiege.
Farewell, young lords;
Whether I live or die, be you the sons
Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,—
Those bated that inherit but the fall
Of the last monarchy,—see that you come
Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when
The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,
That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell.’

– All’s Well That Ends Well

35. Lief (adv.)

Readily, willingly. Rosalind in As You Like It tells Orlando ‘I had as lief be woo’d of a snail.’

36. Urchin-snouted (adj.)

Having a nose like that of a hedgehog, or having a goblin-like, demoniac snout (‘But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar’ Venus and Adonis).

37. Gambold (n.)

Frolic, entertainment, pastime – ‘Marry, I will; let them play it. Is not a comonty a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?’ is from the prologue of The Taming of the Shrew.

38. Bluster (n.)

Storm, tempest, rough blast (‘We have landed in ill time. The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters.’ The Winter’s Tale).

39. Kirtle (n.)

Dress, gown. As Falstaff says to Doll in Henry IV, Part II ‘What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive money o’Thursday; shalt have a cap tomorrow.’

40. Carcanet (n.)

A jewelled necklace – from Sonnet 52, ‘Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.’

41. Pell-mell (adv., adj., n.)

Confused and / or disorderly mass (‘Advance your standards, and upon them, lords; Pell-mell, down with them!’ Love’s Labour’s Lost).

42. Pother (n.)

Fuss, uproar, commotion – ‘Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads’ (King Lear).

43. Relume (v.)

Relight, rekindle, burn afresh. Othello says to himself ‘I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.’

44. Frampold (adj.)

Disagreeable, bad-tempered, moody. ‘She leads a very frampold life with him,’ says Mistress Quickly to Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

45. Younker (n.)

Fashionable young man, fine young gentleman. (‘Those will make the younker madder.’ say the Witches in Macbeth).

The Merry Wives of Windsor, Globe Theatre, 2019. Photographer: Helen Murray.

46. Germen (n.)

Seed, life-forming elements.

‘Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow,
You cataracts and hurricanes, spout
Till you have drenched the steeples, drowned the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head; and thou all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity of the world,
Crack nature’s mould, all germens spill at once
That make ingrateful man.’

– King Lear

47. Raze (v.)

To destroy completely (‘I’ll find a day to massacre them all And raze their faction and their family’ Titus Andronicus).

48. Ostent (n.)

Appearance; air; mein (‘Like one well studied in a sad ostent’ The Merchant of Venice).

49. Thrasonical (adj.)

Bragging; boastful; vainglorious. Quote from As You Like It – ‘There was never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar’s thrasonical brag of ‘I came, saw, and overcame’.’

50. Atomy (n.)

Atom, mote, speck, or mite, tiny being (‘It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.’ As You Like It).

FINIS.

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Shakespeare’s aphoristic short dictionary

Shakespeare dictionary of aphoristic short quotes and literary definitions (part 1), from Absence to Fathers by English-Culture and Carl William Brown.

All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

I consider the genius, in any form, as an effort of nature to produce, among great sacrifices, a better human prototype, more successful, more worthy of life than usual.
Hermann Hesse

Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time. Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Alex St. Clair

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!
Carl William Brown

He is of no age, nor any religion or party or profession. His works come out of the unfathomable depths of his mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Profonda magia è sempre trar il contrario dopo aver trovato il punto de l’unione.
Giordano Bruno

William Shakespeare short aphoristic dictionary (part 2) by Carl William Brown

Absence

This great gap of time, my Antony is away.

Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.

I shall be loved when I am lacked.

Every wink of an eye some new grace will be born. Our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge.

Action

Good sentences, and well pronounced. They would be better if well followed.

That we would do, We should do when we would.

Action is eloquence.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.

We must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers.

Talkers are no good doers.

That we would do, we should do when we would.

If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly.

From this moment, the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.

O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!

What you cannot as you would achieve, you must perforce accomplish as you may.

Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Acting and Actors

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? Why, every fault’s condemned ere it be done.

Like a dull actor nowI have forgot my part.

The eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next, thinking his prattle to be tedious.

And most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind.

Acts

And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

These scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, And stand securely on their battlements, As in a theatre, whence they gape and point At your industrious scenes and acts of death.

Adversity

A wretched soul bruised with adversity, we bid be quiet when we hear it cry; but were we burdened with like weight of pain, as much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.

Advice

Men can counsel and speak comfort to that grief which they themselves not feel; but tasting it, their counsel turns to passion.

No! I defy all counsel.

Be something scanter of your maiden presence.

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.

Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest.

Let not the creaking of shoes, nor the rustling of silks, betray thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders’ books, and defy the foul fiend.

Good counsellors lack no clients.

Affection

I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.

Affliction

Man’s nature cannot carry the affliction nor the fear.

Age

Age is unnecessary.

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: O, my love, my love is young!

William Shakespeare short quotes dictionary

Aggression

Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.

Air

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Slight air, and purging fire, the first my thought, the other my desire.

Allies

Nature teaches beasts to know their friend.

Ambition

Thou art not for the fashion of these times, where none will sweat but for promotion.

No man’s pie is freed from his ambitious finger.

O foolish youth! Thou seek’st the greatness that will overwhelm thee.

Who does i’th’ wars more than his captain can, becomes his captain’s captain.

Fling away ambition, by that sin fell the angels.

Who doth ambition shun and loves to live i’th’ sun.

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself.

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Arm thy heart and fit thy thoughts to mount aloft.

As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Ambivalence

I do perceive here a divided duty.

Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can her heart inform her tongue; the swan’s-down feather that stands upon the swell at the full of tide.

Anecdotes

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

Angel

A winged messenger of heaven.

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

We are all men, In our own natures frail, and capable Of our flesh; few are angels.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Anger

To be in anger is impiety; but who is man that is not angry?

I understand a fury in your words But not the words.

Come not within the measure of my wrath.

Rage must be withstood… Lions make leopards tame.

Come not between the dragon and his wrath!

Let grief Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I’d set my ten commandments in your face.

Animals

To hold opinion with Pythagoras, that souls of animals infuse themselves into the trunks of men.

Pray you no more of this, ‘tis like the howling of Irish wolves against the moon.

Honeybees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

Hark, hark, the lark at heaven’s gate sings.

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn.

So work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

The lark, the herald of the morn.

The fox, who, never so tame, so cherished and locked up, will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

The poor beetle that we tread upon in corporal sufferance finds a pang as great as when a giant dies.

The old bees die, the young possess their hive.

I could endure anything before but a cat, and now he’s a cat to me.

The owl, night’s herald.

Answer

What did he when thou saw’st him? What said he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes he here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he? How parted he with thee? And when shalt thou see him again? Answer me in one word.

Antipathy

Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

Anxiety

Men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive!

O polished perturbation! Golden care! That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide to many a watchful night!

When day’s oppression is not eased by night, but day by night and night by day oppressed.

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred; and I myself see not the bottom of it.

So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, for things that are not to be remedied.

Past cure I am, now reason is past care, and frantic mad with evermore unrest.

Where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

Apothecary

Give me some drink; and bid the apothecary bring the strong poison that I bought of him.

O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick.

Apparitions

What art thou that usurp’st this time of night?

I am thy father’s spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away.

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; come like shadows, so depart.

Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, the extravagant and erring spirit hies to his confine.

William Shakespeare quotes dictionary

Appearances

Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.

Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not “seems”.

Let’s write good angel on the devil’s horn.

Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

The world is still deceived with ornament.

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

The devil hath power t’assume a pleasing shape.

All that glisters is not gold.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.

Appetite

Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts, Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

Then everything include itself in power, power into will, will into appetite, and appetite, an universal wolf, so doubly seconded with will and power, must make perforce an universal prey, and last eat up himself.

Appreciation

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

April

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.

Argument

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Arms

I have in equal balance justly weighed what wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer, and find our griefs heavier than our offences.

Army

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

‘Tis the soldier’s life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

Arts and Artists

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

What fine chisel Could ever yet cut breath?

O, had I but followed the arts!

Astronomy

These earthly godfathers of Heaven’s lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

Astrology

This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!

Authority

Thou hast seen a farmer’s dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur – there thou mightst behold the great image of authority – a dog’s obeyed in office.

The demi-god, Authority.

Autumn

The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

Astronomy

These earthly godfathers of Heaven’s lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

Bastard

I am a bastard, too. I love bastards! I am bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate.

Business

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to’t with delight.

Brevity

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

Bores and Boredom

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men’s blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

Books and Reading

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

Birth

When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.

Bills

I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.

Bereavement

For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.

Bed

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

Beauty

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

Beards

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.

Cakes

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Care

Every men shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!

Caution

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

Censorship

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Courage

That’s a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we’ll not fail.

Cost

Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

Cosmetics

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Corruption

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

Cooperation

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

Cooking

‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Conversation

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Contentment

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

Contentment

He that is well paid is well satisfied.

Conscience

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

Conscience

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Conceit

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

Competition

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Compassion

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Company

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

Comedy and Comedians

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool — motley’s the only wear.

Children

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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Chastity

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.

Charm

I am bewitched with the rogue’s company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I’ll be hanged.

Character

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Cheating

For nothing can seem foul to those that win.

Cheerfulness

The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away

Ceremony

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere ‘Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Coward and Cowardice

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

Cries and Crying

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I’ll weep.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Crime and Criminals

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he’s not robbed at all.

Crisis

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!

Curse

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.

Danger

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Death and Dying

After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.

But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover’s bed.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]

Debt

He that dies pays all his debts.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

Words pay no debts.

Decay

‘Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.

Deception

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Delinquency

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

Despair

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Destiny

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Devil

The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.

The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.

Diligence

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

Dress

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

Dress

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Doubt

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Dreams

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]

Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

Dress

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

Ears

Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.

Effort

Nothing can come of nothing.

Troilus and Cressida, that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare’s plays

Engineering

For ‘Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.

Engagement

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.

Endurance

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

Entertainment

What masque? What music? How shall we beguile the lazy time, if not with some delight?

Expectation

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Experts

Good counselors lack no clients.

Excuses

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Excellence

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Explanations

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

Evil

There’s small choice in rotten apples.

Envy

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Faces

God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

Fame

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Family

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.

Familiarity

Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

Fashion

Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

Farewells

Come, let’s have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let’s mock the midnight bell.

Fate

There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

Fathers

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare short aphoristic dictionary (part 2) by Carl William Brown