Important Hamlet Quotes - Page 2

• Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Power, Madness

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.4, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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• To persevere
  In obstinate condolement is a course
  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Persevere, Stubbornness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tongue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 158

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This is the very ecstasy of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Polonius, Ecstasy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 1, l. 101

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• 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

  Life, Death, Country

  '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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• 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

  Death, Sea, Arrows

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

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• [S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Polonius, Limbs

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• 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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