Important Hamlet Quotes:
This is the very ecstasy of love.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 1, l. 101
topic: Love, Important Hamlet, Polonius, Brevity, Hamlet 2
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53
topic: Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet, Straws, Morality In Hamlet
To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92
topic: Grief, Persevere, Important Hamlet, Obstinate
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 5, sc. 1, l. [201]
topic: Laughing, Favour, Important Hamlet, Grinning, Alas
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [221]
topic: Hamlet And Ophelia, Important Hamlet, Polonius, Hamlet 2
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: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 95
topic: Art, Hamlet And Ophelia, Matter, Horatio, Polonius
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
topic: Memorable, Political, Rotten, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]
topic: Song, Imagination, Gorges, Horatio, Infinite Jest
I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
topic: Death, Dream, Halloween, Someone Dying, Morality In Hamlet
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
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
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
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
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]
topic: Beauty, Moving, Angel, Star Trek Next Generation, Firmament
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
topic: Death, Patience, Hamlet And Ophelia, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Horatio, Either Or
This above all; to thine own self be true.
topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, True To Myself, Horatio
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
topic: Heaven, Horatio, Thoughts And Prayers, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
topic: Sadness, Sorrow, Spy, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]
topic: Women, Memorable, Important, Misquoting, 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
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: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]
topic: Kings, Mean, Men, Mortality In Hamlet, Maggots
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 186
topic: Water, Tears, Hamlet And Ophelia, Adieu, Ophelia
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58
topic: Entrances, Quarrels, Polonius, Important Hamlet
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
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
source: William Shakespeare (1996). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.4, Lorenz Educational Publishers
topic: Halloween, Power, Madness, Madness And Insanity, Important Hamlet
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32
topic: Sleep, Men, Beast, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]
topic: Vapour, Earth, Cynicism, Firmament, Misanthropy
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]
topic: Fire, Air, Space, Star Gazing, Firmament
source: William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920
topic: Calumny Is, Ice, Snow, Ophelia, Hamlet Love
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
topic: Life, Shapes, Divinity, Horatio, 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
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166
topic: Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy, Horatio, Morality In Hamlet
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
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58
topic: Men, Epic Poems, Voice, Horatio, Reserves
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
topic: My Thoughts, Thoughts And Prayers, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet, Polonius
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Someone Dying, Dealing With Death
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
source: William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1987). “Hamlet”, p.116, Nelson Thornes
topic: Exercise, Mirth, Melancholy, Hamlet 2, Important Hamlet
topic: Coward, Doe, Hue, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
topic: Death, Sleep, Heart, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
topic: Death, Sea, Arrows, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]
topic: Good Night, Goodnight, Angel, Horatio, Day And Night
topic: Friendship, Money, Bitterness, Uneasy, Lending Money
source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
topic: Death, Dream, Sleep, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet