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William Shakespeare, otherwise known as โThe Bardโ born in Stratford-upon-Avon on 26th April 1564, wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets, before passing away at the age of 52. โHamlet โ (Officially โThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkโ ) was Shakespeareโs 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
โBe somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.โ
Quotes from Hamlet โ Hamlet, I, iii, 121
โThings rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!โ
Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 136
โMother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.โ
Hamlet (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 142
โThereโs neโer a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But heโs an arrant knave.โ
Hamlet Quotes โ Hamlet, I, v, 123
โThereโs such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.โ
Hamlet (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [123]
โI do not set my life at a pinโs 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
โSomething is rotten in the state of Denmark.โ
Hamlet, I, iv, 90
โIt 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
โCome, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.โ
Quotes from Hamlet (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [72]
โThou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for thy better.โ
Hamlet (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 31
โThe glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And โgins to pale his uneffectual fire.โ
Hamlet, I, v, 89
โI once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair.โ
Hamlet, V, ii, 33
โNymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins rememberโd.โ
Hamlet Quotes โ Hamlet, III, i, 89
โWhether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.โ
Hamlet [1600-1601], I, i, 153
โA politicianโฆ one that would circumvent God.โ
Hamlet, V, i, 84
โI am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.โ
Hamlet, II, ii, 405
โFind 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
โThat he is mad, โtis true; โtis true โtis pity; And pity โtis โtis true.โ
Hamlet, II, ii, 97
โLeave her to heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.โ
Hamlet, I, v, 86
โOne fair daughter and no more,
The which he loved passing well.โ
Hamlet, II, ii, 435
โPolonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.โ
Hamlet Quotes โ Hamlet (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [195]
โWhy, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.โ
Hamlet [1600-1601], I, ii, 143
โHe 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]
โCustom hath made it in him a property of easiness.โ
Hamlet, V, i, 73
โWhy, 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]
โI thought thy bride-bed to have deckโd, sweet maid, And not have strewโd thy grave.โ
Hamlet, V, i, 267
โO 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
โHow 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]
โMy fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lionโs nerve.โ
Hamlet, I, iv, 81
โHas this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?โ
Hamlet, V, i, 71
โAlas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.โ
Hamlet (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]
โI am thy fatherโs spirit;
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night.โ
Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 9
โThe 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
โO, speak to me no more; these words like daggers enter my ears.โ
Hamlet, Act 3
โโTis in my memory lockโd,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.โ
Hamlet [1600-1601], I, iii, 85
โThe play, I remember, pleased not the million; โtwas caviare to the general.โ
Hamlet (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [465]
โThere is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.โ
Hamlet, II, ii, 392
โThe great man down, you mark his favourite flies;
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.โ
Hamlet (1601)
โSo full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.โ
Hamlet, IV, v, 19
โConfess yourself to heaven;
Repent whatโs past; avoid what is to come.โ
Hamlet, III, iv, 149
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