Hamlet Quotes

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“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool’s ear.” (Hamlet Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Not a whit, we defy augury: there’s a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.” (Hamlet Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Our wills and fates do so contrary run, that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“Sweets to the sweet, farewell! I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not have strewed thy grave.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“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
Hamlet

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, The nearer bloody.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“This is the very ecstasy of love,
Whose violent property fordoes itself
And leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under heaven
That does afflict our natures.
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“To die, – To sleep, – To sleep!
Perchance to dream: – ay, there’s the rub;
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
Hamlet

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in Reason! how infinite in faculties! 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? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so.” (Hamlet Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet

“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
Hamlet

“You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet