50 Amazing William Shakespeare Quotes from Hamlet

50 Amazing William Shakespeare Quotes from Hamlet
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William Shakespeare, otherwise known as โ€˜The Bardโ€™ born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26th April 1564, wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets, before passing away at the age of 52. โ€˜Hamletโ€˜ (Officially โ€˜The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkโ€™ ) was Shakespeareโ€™s longest play at a whopping 30,577 words , but we promise to keep our selection of Quotes from Hamlet nailed down to only the most interesting !

Quotes from Hamlet

โ€œBe somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.โ€

Quotes from Hamlet โ€“ Hamlet, I, iii, 121

โ€œThings rank and gross in nature

Possess it merely. That it should come to this!โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 136

โ€œMother, for love of grace,

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 142
Quotes from Hamlet

โ€œThereโ€™s neโ€™er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But heโ€™s an arrant knave.โ€

Hamlet Quotes โ€“ Hamlet, I, v, 123

โ€œThereโ€™s such divinity doth hedge a king,

That treason can but peep to what it would.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [123]

โ€œI do not set my life at a pinโ€™s fee;

And for my soul, what can it do to that,

Being a thing immortal as itself?โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 65

โ€œSomething is rotten in the state of Denmark.โ€

Hamlet, I, iv, 90
shakespeare hamlet quotes

โ€œIt is not, nor it cannot come to good;

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!

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

โ€œCome, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.โ€

Quotes from Hamlet (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [72]

โ€œThou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!

I took thee for thy better.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 31

โ€œThe glowworm shows the matin to be near,

And โ€˜gins to pale his uneffectual fire.โ€

Hamlet, I, v, 89

โ€œI once did hold it, as our statists do,

A baseness to write fair.โ€

Hamlet, V, ii, 33
quotes from hamlet

โ€œNymph, in thy orisons

Be all my sins rememberโ€™d.โ€

Hamlet Quotes โ€“ Hamlet, III, i, 89

โ€œWhether in sea or fire, in earth or air,

The extravagant and erring spirit hies

To his confine.โ€

Hamlet [1600-1601], I, i, 153

โ€œA politicianโ€ฆ one that would circumvent God.โ€

Hamlet, V, i, 84

โ€œI am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.โ€

Hamlet, II, ii, 405
Shakespeare hamlet quotes

โ€œFind out the cause of this effect,

Or rather say, the cause of this defect,

For this effect defective comes by cause.โ€

Quotes from Hamlet, II, ii, 101

โ€œThat he is mad, โ€™tis true; โ€™tis true โ€™tis pity; And pity โ€™tis โ€™tis true.โ€

Hamlet, II, ii, 97

โ€œLeave her to heaven,

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,

To prick and sting her.โ€

Hamlet, I, v, 86

โ€œOne fair daughter and no more,

The which he loved passing well.โ€

Hamlet, II, ii, 435
Quotes from Hamlet

โ€œPolonius: What do you read, my lord?

Hamlet: Words, words, words.โ€

Hamlet Quotes โ€“ Hamlet (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [195]

โ€œWhy, she would hang on him,

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on.โ€

Hamlet [1600-1601], I, ii, 143

โ€œHe is dead and gone, lady,

He is dead and gone,

At his head a grass-green turf;

At his heels a stone.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [29]

โ€œCustom hath made it in him a property of easiness.โ€

Hamlet, V, i, 73
Quotes from Hamlet

โ€œWhy, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;

I am justly killed with my own treachery.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [320]

โ€œI thought thy bride-bed to have deckโ€™d, sweet maid, And not have strewโ€™d thy grave.โ€

Hamlet, V, i, 267

โ€œO God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.โ€

Hamlet (1601), II, ii

โ€œHow should I your true love know

From another one?

By his cockle hat and staff,

And his sandal shoon.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [23]

โ€œMy fate cries out,

And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lionโ€™s nerve.โ€

Hamlet, I, iv, 81
Hamlet Quotes

โ€œHas this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?โ€

Hamlet, V, i, 71

โ€œAlas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.โ€

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

โ€œI am thy fatherโ€™s spirit;

Doomed for a certain term to walk the night.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 9
Hamlet Quotes

โ€œThe friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 62

โ€œO, speak to me no more; these words like daggers enter my ears.โ€

Hamlet, Act 3

โ€œโ€™Tis in my memory lockโ€™d,

And you yourself shall keep the key of it.โ€

Hamlet [1600-1601], I, iii, 85

โ€œThe play, I remember, pleased not the million; โ€™twas caviare to the general.โ€

Hamlet (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [465]

โ€œThere is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.โ€

Hamlet, II, ii, 392

โ€œThe great man down, you mark his favourite flies;

The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.โ€

Hamlet (1601)

โ€œSo full of artless jealousy is guilt,

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.โ€

Hamlet, IV, v, 19

โ€œConfess yourself to heaven;

Repent whatโ€™s past; avoid what is to come.โ€

Hamlet, III, iv, 149
Quotes from Hamlet

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