Important Hamlet Quotes - Page 2

• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Polonius, Hamlet 2

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [221]

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• Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Bears, Polonius

  1600-1 Polonius to Laertes. Hamlet, act1, sc.3, l.65-7.

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• This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Air, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

  William Shakespeare

  Calumny Is, Ice, Snow

  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

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• Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Instruments, Call Me

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

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

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• I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Hamlet And Ophelia, Daggers

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]

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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  Claudius

  Language And Power, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

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

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• I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
  forgone all custom of exercise.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Mirth, Melancholy

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1987). “Hamlet”, p.116, Nelson Thornes

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• 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

  Coward, Doe, Hue

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

  William Shakespeare

  Vapour, Earth, Cynicism

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• 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

  Death, Sleep, Heart

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge, Polonius

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

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• To take arms against a sea of troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Speech

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

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• And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Angel

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

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• Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Favour, Paint

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• 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

  Death, Dream, Sleep

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, War, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 105

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