Misquoted Shakespeare
Many Shakespeare quotes are not actually true quotes from Shakespeare at all, but rather distortions of his words.
Top 10 Shakespeare Misquotes - Listverse
Most of the famous quotes we know of Shakespeare, are, in fact, distortions of what he actually wrote. This list will help to clear some of those errors up.
12 Misunderstood and Misquoted Shakespearean Expressions
Here are a dozen of Shakespeare's phrases with comments about their original wording and meaning.
“Lead on, Macduff!” is a phrase often used to say “after you” when people are being polite and opening doors for someone, or showing that they will follow ...
Most scholars or enthusiasts have a few quotations from Shakespeare which make them wince when continually misunderstood. Here are a handful I particularly ...
9 Misquotes of Shakespeare · 1. The weird sisters' incantation in Macbeth–“Double, double toil and trouble”–is sometimes misquoted as “Bubble, ...
Request: any misquoted or wrong Shakespeare quotes? - Reddit
All of these are from the wiki quotes entry on William Shakespeare: Misattributed Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry ...
The editors of Listverse.com have collected the top ten Shakespeare misquotes along with the actual quotes.
Misunderstood and Misquoted Shakespeare: “Lead on, Macduff!”
Lead on, Macduff!” is a phrase often used to say “after you” when people are being polite and opening doors for someone, or showing that ...
Misquoted Shakespeare: “Bubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble”
I have more than one friend who likes to stir a pot of whatever they are cooking and say in a witchy voice: “Bubble bubble, toil and trouble ...
Donald Trump misquotes Shakespeare and compares his crowd ...
Donald Trump misquotes Shakespeare and compares his crowd sizes to Churchill's Reuters.
Wherefore Must Thou Misquote Me? - English-Language Thoughts
I could write a number of different posts about William Shakespeare, and I probably will end up doing so. Genius is a word that can be ...
Funny Shakespeare Quotes and Insults ... Two men in black with the appearance of front-row forwards, linked as in Romeo and Juliet, RSC, 1986.
Trump quotes Shakespeare at rally (but gets it wrong) and says he ...
The correct phrase, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is “hail-fellow-well-met,” and does not appear in a Shakespeare text.
WRONG!: Bible, Shakespeare misquoted regularly
In regards to misunderstandings and misquoting, only William Shakespeare, whose 400th birthday was last Sunday, rivals the Bible.
Shakespeare didn't say that - Columbia Journalism Review
Hell hath no fury like a writer scorned, and, should Shakespeare be alive today, he might feel much scorn'd. People misquote Shakespeare so ...
Zut! Monsieur François Hollande, the socialist candidate running for president in La Douce France, cited Shakespeare during his first major ...
Common Phrases in Shakespeare's Plays - Education…
Common Phrases in Shakespeare's Plays · "A wild goose chase" - Romeo and Juliet · “I have been in such a pickle” - The Tempest · “I must be cruel, only to be kind” ...
Fakespeare: 5 quotes commonly misattributed to Shakespeare
Every day, fake Shakespeare quotes are being shared on social media. Here are a few examples: 1. “Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
Famous Quotes | Royal Shakespeare Company
We have selected some well-known quotes from each of Shakespeare's plays. Quotations by play* All's Well That Ends Well