Hamlet Theme Quotes:
source: William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.61
topic: Hamlet Revenge, Fats, Maggots, Hamlet Theme
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]
topic: Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments, Hamlet Theme
From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
source: William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.14, Cambridge University Press
topic: Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge, Important Hamlet, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet
source: William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA
topic: Soul, Important Hamlet, Polonius, Brevity, Hamlet 2
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
topic: Death, Sea, Arrows, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
source: 1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.
topic: Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 153
topic: Vices, Virtue, Pardon, Fatness, Hamlet Theme
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 13
topic: Stars, Fear, Eye, Quills, Flesh And Blood
I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.
source: William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.840
topic: Son, Mad, Noble, Polonius, Hamlet Theme
So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129
topic: Mother, Love You, Wind, Hamlet Death, Hamlet Theme
You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 68
topic: Love, Blood, Age, Heyday, Hamlet Love
This is the very ecstasy of love.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 1, l. 101
topic: Love, Important Hamlet, Polonius, Brevity, Hamlet 2
This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
source: William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.400
topic: Thinking, Brain, Creation, Hamlet Theme, Important Hamlet
source: William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.384
topic: Heart, Teeth, Sickness, Hamlet Theme
Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.
source: Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.683, Barnes & Noble Publishing
topic: Air, Lord, Polonius, Hamlet Death, Hamlet Significant
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]
topic: Dream, Kings, Science, Infinite Space, Bad Dream
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
topic: God, Fake People, Being Yourself, Hypocrit, Inspirations Being Yourself
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
topic: Crazy, Wind, Mad, Insanity And Sanity, Denmark In Hamlet
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]
topic: Halloween, Math, Insanity, Horatio, Insanity And Sanity
source: William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
topic: Eye, Wicked, Tears, Flushing, Hamlet Theme
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]
topic: Use, Hamlet And Ophelia, Daggers, Ophelia, Hamlet Ophelia
It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 158
topic: Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tongue, Hamlet 2, Hamlet Theme
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]
topic: Halloween, Night, Denmark In Hamlet, Contagion, Inspirational Halloween
source: William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.201, BookCaps Study Guides
topic: Ignorance, Names, Mad, Lisp, Hamlet Ophelia
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]
topic: Women, Memorable, Important, Misquoting, Polonius
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
topic: My Thoughts, Thoughts And Prayers, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet, Polonius
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
topic: God, Despair, Use, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
topic: Heaven, Horatio, Thoughts And Prayers, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]
topic: Fall, Special, Hamlet And Ophelia, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72
topic: Life, Death, Nature, Father Died, Morality In Hamlet
topic: Fall, Special, Sparrows, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 95
topic: Art, Hamlet And Ophelia, Matter, Horatio, Polonius
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
topic: Memorable, Political, Rotten, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]
topic: Kings, Play, Acting, Most Memorable, Be Or Not To Be
Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27
topic: Hamlet And Ophelia, Strange, Murder, Hamlet Revenge, Hamlet Significant