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Hamlet Quotes & Sayings

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Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. — Charlie Chaplin

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet. — William Shakespeare

While tentbound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear — Jon Krakauer

Frailty, thy name is woman! — William Shakespeare

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes. — Humphrey Bogart

I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself. — Eloisa James

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)"
- William Shakespeare "hamlet — William Shakespeare

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge. — Newton Lee

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. — William Shakespeare

You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet. — Susan Mallery

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet. — Maurice Saatchi

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. — William Shakespeare

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands. — James Black

Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee. — William Shakespeare

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly. — Meghan O'Rourke

What a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)! — Richard Baxter

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni. — Gustave Flaubert

The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape. — William Shakespeare

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet. — Jones Very

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! — William Shakespeare

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate. — Johnny Rich

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress! — Matt Lucas

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. — William Shakespeare

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
--Hamlet (I, v, 106) — William Shakespeare

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. — Mark Rylance

Mother, you have my father much offended. — William Shakespeare

Critchley and Webster's fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded. — Hari Kunzru

They hold their phones out like Hamlet addressing Yorick's skull... — Chase Novak

KING CLAUDIUS
How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
HAMLET
Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. — William Shakespeare

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo ... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great. — David Carradine

They say an old man is twice a child — William Shakespeare

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare. — Robert Morse

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak? — Jean Genet

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. — Orson Welles

Newton led a discussion of Hamlet's observation that, to those who see it that way, all the world is a prison. HAMLET: — Laura Bates

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569). — Richard Baxter

Prologue to the omen coming on
- Horatio, Hamlet — William Shakespeare

If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare. — William Monahan

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross. — Hugh Kingsmill

Hamlet, I will argue, is a play about reading and misreading, about the difficulties of interpretation. — William Shakespeare

To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come ... — William Shakespeare

I'll rant as well as thou! — Hamlet Shakespeare

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. — Walter Scott

O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! — William Shakespeare

Thine evermore, most dear lady,
Whilst this machine is to him,
Hamlet. — William Shakespeare

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. — Liam Neeson

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about, — Jasper Fforde

To sleep perchance to dream — William Shakespeare

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone. — William Shakespeare

I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people. — Tom Barbash

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. — Kenneth Clark

Be patient, Ophelia.

Love,
Hamlet — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. — Damian Lewis

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage. — Stephen Lang

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. — John Evelyn

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop. — William F. Buckley Jr.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. — Jack Lemmon

You have to learn the language of Hamlet. — Edward Bond

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you. — Matthew Macfadyen

This is the very ecstasy of love. — William Shakespeare

When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was real. — Graham Swift

It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy. — Alain De Botton

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet. — Danny Kaye

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality. — Kenneth Branagh

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says ... it's payback time! — Jasper Fforde

I've read Hamlet, I know men suffer. — Andrea Dworkin

We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us. — William Shakespeare

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee. — William Shakespeare

It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians. — William Shakespeare

Hamlet is a little daunting. — Kyle MacLachlan

Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. — Douglas Adams

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.' — Malorie Blackman

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy. — William Shakespeare

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. — Orson Welles

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? — Brendan Fraser

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do. — Peter Cushing

Queen. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. [225] Hamlet — William Shakespeare

Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad? — William Shakespeare

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles. — Jason Gann

Well said, old mole! — William Shakespeare

I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations. — Rhiannon McGavin

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. — William Shakespeare

God didn't create us with such a huge power of thought and a divine capacity for reason in order for us not to use them, — Hamlet Shakespeare

Something's rotten in Denmark." ~~Hamlet — William Shakespeare

+"I'm sick in the heart."~Hamlet — William Shakespeare

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. — William Shakespeare

I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? — William Shakespeare

Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural. — William Shakespeare

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy. — H.L. Mencken

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. — Ben Kingsley

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. — Harvey Korman

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. — Sarah Bernhardt