Denmark In Hamlet Quotes:

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]

topic: Halloween, Night, Denmark In Hamlet, Contagion, Inspirational Halloween

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [625]

topic: Denmark In Hamlet, Tongue, Murder, Mortality In Hamlet, Hamlet 2

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

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.46, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia, Horatio, Mortality In Hamlet

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

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 14

topic: Mind, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia, Horatio, Observance

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 84

topic: Heaven, Denmark In Hamlet, Ghost, Hamlet Revenge

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Funeral, Meat, Denmark In Hamlet, Horatio, Thrift

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Boyfriend, Stars, Sun And Stars, Love Literature

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Business, Good Life, Knowledge, Horatio, Maximizing

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Integrity, Good Character, Horatio

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Memorable, Political, Rotten, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

This above all; to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, True To Myself, Horatio

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

- William Shakespeare

topic: God, Despair, Use, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Sadness, Sorrow, Spy, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

topic: Death, Sea, Arrows, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Crazy, Wind, Mad, Insanity And Sanity, Denmark In Hamlet

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

topic: Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]

topic: Good Night, Goodnight, Angel, Horatio, Day And Night

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Shapes, Divinity, Horatio, Denmark In Hamlet

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Someone Dying, Dealing With Death

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Friendship, Money, Bitterness, Uneasy, Lending Money

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Faith, Memorable, Christianity, Horatio, Denmark In Hamlet

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Memorable, Be Kind, Cruelty, Horatio, Denmark In Hamlet

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Angel, Grace, Ministers, Goblin, Denmark In Hamlet

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1600-1 Hamlet to Laertes. Hamlet, act 5, sc.1, l.288-9.

topic: Dog, Cat, Animal, Horatio, Denmark In Hamlet

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 8

topic: Heart, Sick, Bitter Cold, Denmark In Hamlet