Shakespeare's Hamlet Quotes
Collection of top 88 famous quotes about Shakespeare's Hamlet
Shakespeare's Hamlet Quotes & Sayings
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Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.
— William Shakespeare
More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.
— William Shakespeare
Frailty, thy name is woman!
— William Shakespeare
Our son shall win.QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow. — William Shakespeare
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
— Erin Morgenstern
For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away — William Shakespeare
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
— William Shakespeare
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
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.
— William Shakespeare
This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.
— William Shakespeare
+"There is method in my madness."~Hamlet
— William Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
— William Shakespeare
The play's the thing." ~~Hamlet
— William Shakespeare
Why, what should be the fear?I do not set my life at a pin's fee. — William Shakespeare
The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape. — William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
— William Shakespeare
Polonius: My lord, I will take my leave of you.Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal ... — William Shakespeare
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
— William Shakespeare
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.
— Pranab Mukherjee
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!--Hamlet (I, v, 106) — William Shakespeare
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
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
— William Shakespeare
KING CLAUDIUSHow is it that the clouds still hang on you?
HAMLET
Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun. — William Shakespeare
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
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
— Aaron Yoo
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
— John E. Douglas
There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.
— Douglas Preston
Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.
— William Shakespeare
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.
— William Shakespeare
Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.
— William Shakespeare
POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?HAMLET: Words, words, words. — William Shakespeare
Imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.
— Hector Berlioz
Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
— William Shakespeare
We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.
— William Shakespeare
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
— Ian Doescher
In my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep
— William Shakespeare
If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.
— William Shakespeare
You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
— William Shakespeare
To persevereIn obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. — William Shakespeare
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
— Henning Mankell
My father's brother, but no more like my fatherThan I to Hercules. — William Shakespeare
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
— William Shakespeare
Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,Drink off this potion! — William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
— William Shakespeare
That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
— William Shakespeare
This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.
— Patricia Briggs
It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians.
— William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is man" ~ Hamlet
— William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
— Malorie Blackman
Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!
— William Shakespeare
This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
— William Shakespeare
You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.
— William Shakespeare
O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!
— William Shakespeare
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
— Carol Zaleski
Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
— 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
This is the very ecstasy of love.
— William Shakespeare
+"I'm sick in the heart."~Hamlet
— William Shakespeare
Something's rotten in Denmark." ~~Hamlet
— William Shakespeare
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
— 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
Well said, old mole!
— William Shakespeare
Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?
— William Shakespeare
Queen. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. [225] 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
If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.
— William Monahan
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
— Brand Blanshard
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
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
Prologue to the omen coming on- Horatio, Hamlet — William Shakespeare
To sleep perchance to dream
— William Shakespeare
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
— Robert A. Heinlein
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
— William Shakespeare
Be patient, Ophelia.Love,
Hamlet — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
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
Thine evermore, most dear lady,Whilst this machine is to him,
Hamlet. — William Shakespeare
I'll rant as well as thou!
— Hamlet Shakespeare
Hamlet, I will argue, is a play about reading and misreading, about the difficulties of interpretation.
— William Shakespeare
I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.
— Brian D'Arcy James
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
— Roger Zelazny
