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Ides of March
The Ides of March is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian calendar. It was marked by several major religious observances. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history.
Et tu, Brute?
phrase said in the play Julius Caesar by the title character
To be, or not to be
soliloquy in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet
Winter of Discontent
winter of 1978–79 in the United Kingdom with union strikes demanding pay rises greater than the Labour government allowed, exacerbated by severe storms
Greek to me
idiom for something not understandable
All the world's a stage
phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII.
All that glitters is not gold
well-known saying
honorificabilitudinitatibus
thumb|right|300px|The word as it appears in the first surviving edition of Shakespeare's ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (third line)
star-crossed lovers
right|200px|thumb|The phrase "star-crossed lovers" was coined in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
idiom, quotation from Romeo and Juliet