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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

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

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 power
To 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 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

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 persevere
In 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 father
Than 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

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

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

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. — William Shakespeare

Use them after your own honour and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit in your bounty. - Hamlet to Polonius — William Shakespeare