Hamlet Revenge Quotes:

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

topic: Sassy, Hamlet Revenge, Drink

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [584]

topic: Acting, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge, Polonius, Theatre Acting

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.61

topic: Hamlet Revenge, Fats, Maggots, Hamlet Theme

From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

topic: Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge, Important Hamlet, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 127

topic: Revenge, Should Have, Murder, Hamlet Revenge

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

topic: Death, Dream, Halloween, Someone Dying, Morality In Hamlet

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

- William Shakespeare

topic: God, Fake People, Being Yourself, Hypocrit, Inspirations Being Yourself

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

topic: Revenge, Giving, Grace, Hamlet Revenge

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Smile, May, Villain, Horatio, Polonius

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

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

- William Shakespeare

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

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

- William Shakespeare

topic: Coward, Doe, Hue, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

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

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Heaven, Horatio, Thoughts And Prayers, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

topic: Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Country, Long Love, Be Or Not To Be, Hamlet Death

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fall, Special, Sparrows, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

- Mark Twain

source: 1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.

topic: Long, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality 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

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

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Men, Villain, Horatio, Polonius, False Appearances

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

- Claudius

topic: My Thoughts, Thoughts And Prayers, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet, Polonius

But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Life, Death, Country, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

topic: Kings, Play, Acting, Most Memorable, Be Or Not To Be

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Death, Patience, Hamlet And Ophelia, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

topic: Fall, Special, Hamlet And Ophelia, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality 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

Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Fall, Buddhism, Humanity, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 13

topic: Stars, Fear, Eye, Quills, Flesh And Blood

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Death, Sleep, Heart, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27

topic: Hamlet And Ophelia, Strange, Murder, Hamlet Revenge, Hamlet Significant

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Love, Suicide, Creativity, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet