Famous quotes from Hamlet
The most famous quotes from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet are listed below. Please click the Play Index for access to full details of the play, together with the cast of characters and the full text of the script. The script of the play will provide details of any of the quotes that you can possibly think of for Hamlet
Famous Quotes and Quotations from the plays of William Shakespeare
A Shakespearean quote such as "To be, or not to be" and the famous "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" quote form some of literature's most celebrated lines and if asked to recite one of Shakespeare's most famous quotations the majority of people would choose one of these. However, many expressions that we use every day originated in Shakespeare's plays. We use the Bard's words all of the time in everyday speech, however, we are often totally unaware that we are 'borrowing' sayings from his work - we frequently quote Shakespeare! Will Shake-speare is attributed with writing 38 plays, Famous Shakespearean sonnets and 5 other poems and used about 21,000 different words. Shake-speare is credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with the introduction of nearly 3,000 words into the language. It's no wonder that expressions from his works are an 'anonymous' part of the English language.
Famous Quotes from Hamlet
"To be, or not to be: that is the question". Hamlet quote (Act III, Sc. I).
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". Hamlet quote Act I, Sc. III).
"This above all: to thine own self be true" Hamlet quote (Act I, Sc. III).
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." Hamlet quote (Act II, Scene II).
"That it should come to this!". Hamlet quote (Act I, Scene II).
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" Hamlet quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"What a piece of work is 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! " Hamlet quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Hamlet ( Quote Act III, Sc. II).
"In my mind's eye". Hamlet quotation (Quote Act I, Scene II).
"A little more than kin, and less than kind". (Hamlet Quote Act I, Scene II).
"The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king". Hamlet Quote (Act II, Scene II).
"And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man". (Hamlet Quote Act I, Scene III)."
"This is the very ecstasy of love". - ( Hamlet Quote Act II, Sc I).
"Brevity is the soul of wit". - Hamlet Quote (Act II, Scene II).
"Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love". Hamlet Quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind". - (Hamlet Quote Act III, Scene I).
"Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" Hamlet Quote (Act III, Sc. II).
"I will speak daggers to her, but use none". - (Hamlet Quote Act III, Sc. II).
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions". - (Hamlet Quote Act IV, Scene V).
The most famous quotes from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet are listed below. Please click the Play Index for access to full details of the play, together with the cast of characters and the full text of the script. The script of the play will provide details of any of the quotes that you can possibly think of for Hamlet
Famous Quotes and Quotations from the plays of William Shakespeare
A Shakespearean quote such as "To be, or not to be" and the famous "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" quote form some of literature's most celebrated lines and if asked to recite one of Shakespeare's most famous quotations the majority of people would choose one of these. However, many expressions that we use every day originated in Shakespeare's plays. We use the Bard's words all of the time in everyday speech, however, we are often totally unaware that we are 'borrowing' sayings from his work - we frequently quote Shakespeare! Will Shake-speare is attributed with writing 38 plays, Famous Shakespearean sonnets and 5 other poems and used about 21,000 different words. Shake-speare is credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with the introduction of nearly 3,000 words into the language. It's no wonder that expressions from his works are an 'anonymous' part of the English language.
Famous Quotes from Hamlet
"To be, or not to be: that is the question". Hamlet quote (Act III, Sc. I).
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". Hamlet quote Act I, Sc. III).
"This above all: to thine own self be true" Hamlet quote (Act I, Sc. III).
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." Hamlet quote (Act II, Scene II).
"That it should come to this!". Hamlet quote (Act I, Scene II).
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" Hamlet quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"What a piece of work is 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! " Hamlet quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Hamlet ( Quote Act III, Sc. II).
"In my mind's eye". Hamlet quotation (Quote Act I, Scene II).
"A little more than kin, and less than kind". (Hamlet Quote Act I, Scene II).
"The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king". Hamlet Quote (Act II, Scene II).
"And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man". (Hamlet Quote Act I, Scene III)."
"This is the very ecstasy of love". - ( Hamlet Quote Act II, Sc I).
"Brevity is the soul of wit". - Hamlet Quote (Act II, Scene II).
"Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love". Hamlet Quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind". - (Hamlet Quote Act III, Scene I).
"Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" Hamlet Quote (Act III, Sc. II).
"I will speak daggers to her, but use none". - (Hamlet Quote Act III, Sc. II).
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions". - (Hamlet Quote Act IV, Scene V).
Famous Quotes from Julius Caesar
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him". Quote (Act III, Scene II).
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me". - Julius Caesar Quote (Act I, Scene II).
"A dish fit for the gods". Quote (Act II, Scene I).
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war". Julius Caesar Quote (Act III, Sc. I).
"Et tu, Brute!" Quote (Act III, Scene I).
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings". - (Quote Act I, Scene II).
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more". Quote (Act III, Scene II).
"Beware the ides of March". - (Quote Act I, Scene II).
"This was the noblest Roman of them all". - (Quote Act V, Sc. V).
"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff". - (Quote Act III, Sc. II).
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous" Julius Quote (Act I, Scene II).
"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men". - (Quote Act III, Sc. II).
"As he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" . Quote (Act III, Sc. II).
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come". Julius Caesar Quote (Act II, Scene II).
Famous Quotation from Merchant of Venice
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - ( Quote Act III, scene I).
"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose". -( Quote Act I, sce. III).
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind". - ( Quote Act I, scene III)
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. The Merchant of Venice Quote Act i. scene. 1.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Quote Act i. sce. 2.
I dote on his very absence. The Merchant of Venice Quote Act i. scene. 2.
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. Quote Act i. sce. 3.
Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow’d livery of the burnish’d sun. Quote Act ii. scene. 1.
It is a wise father that knows his own child. Merchant of Venice Quote Act ii. sce. 2.
In the twinkling of an eye. The Merchant of Venice Quote Act ii. scene. 2.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Quote Act ii. sce. 6.
All that glisters is not gold. The Merchant of Venice Quote. Act ii.
Famous Quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream
"The course of true love never did run smooth". Quote (Act I, Scene I).
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind". Quote (Act I, Scene I)
That would hang us, every mother’s son. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quote. Act i. Scene.2
I ’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. Quote Act ii. Scene. 1
My heart Is true as steel. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quote. Act ii. Scene. 1.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quote. Act ii. Scene.1
The true beginning of our end. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quote. Act v. Scene.1 .
Famous quotes from Romeo and Juliet
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" Romeo and Juliet ( Quote Act II, Scene II).
"Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
Romeo and Juliet ( Quote Act II, Scene II).
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". Romeo and Juliet ( Quote Act II, Sc. II).
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast". ( Quote Act II, Scene III).
"Tempt not a desperate man" Romeo and Juliet Quote (Act V, Sc. III).
"For you and I are past our dancing days" . Romeo and Juliet ( Quote Act I, Scene V).
"O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright" Romeo and Juliet Quote (Act I, Sc. V).
"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear" . ( Quote Act I, Scene V).
"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!" Romeo and Juliet Quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty". ( Quote Act IV, Sc. II).
Quotations from King Lear
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" - ( Quote Act I, Scene IV).
"I am a man more sinned against than sinning". - ( Quote Act III, Scene II).
"My love's more richer than my tongue". King Lear Quote (Act I, Scene I).
"Nothing will come of nothing." King Lear Quote (Act I, Scene I).
"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest". - ( Quote Act I, Scene IV).
"The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.' " . King Lear Quote (Act IV, Scene I).
Quotations from Macbeth
"There 's daggers in men's smiles". - ( Quote Act II, Sc. III).
"what 's done is done". Macbeth ( Quote Act III, Scene II).
"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none". Macbeth Quote (Act I, Sc. VII).
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair". - ( Quote Act I, Scene I).
"I bear a charmed life". Macbeth Quote (Act V, Sc. VIII).
"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." Macbeth Quote (Act I, Scene V).
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red" Macbeth Quote (Act II, Sc. II).
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." Macbeth Quote (Act IV, Scene I).
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" - ( Quote Act V, Scene I).
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Macbeth Quote (Act V, Sc. I).
"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done,
When the battle 's lost and won". Macbeth Quote (Act I, Scene I).
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me". Macbeth Quote (Act I, Scene III).
"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 't were a careless trifle". - ( Quote Act I, Sc. IV).
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't." Macbeth Quote (Act I, Scene V).
"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other." - ( Quote Act I, Scene VII).
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" Macbeth Quote (Act II, Scene I).
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Macbeth Quote (Act V, Scene V).
Quotations from Othello
"‘T’is neither here nor there." Othello Quote (Act IV, Scene III).
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at". Othello Quote (Act I, Scene I).
"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on". Quote (Act I, Scene III).
"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief". Othello Quote (Act I, Scene III). "It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock". Othello Quote (Act III)
Quotes from Timon of Athens
"We have seen better days". Quote (Act IV, Scene II) Men shut their doors against a setting sun. Quote Act i. Sc. 2.
Every room Hath blazed with lights and bray’d with minstrelsy. Timon of Athens Quote Act ii. Scene. 2.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. Quote Act iii. Sc. 1.
We have seen better days. Timon of Athens Quote Act iv. Scene. 2.
Life’s uncertain voyage. Quote Act v. Sc. 1.
Quotations from As You Like It
"All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" - ( Quote Act II, Scene VII).
"Can one desire too much of a good thing?". As You Like It ( Quote Act IV, Sc. I).
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" - ( Quote Act II, Scene IV).
"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!" As You Like It ( Quote Act V, Sc. II).
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude". ( Quote Act II, Scene VII).
"True is it that we have seen better days". - ( Quote Act II, Scene VII).
"For ever and a day". As You Like It ( Quote Act IV, Sc. I).
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool". - ( Quote Act V, Scene I).
Quotations from Titus Andronicus
"These words are razors to my wounded heart". Titus Andronicus Quote (Act I, Scene I) Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge. Titus Andronicus Quote Act i. Scene 2.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing. Titus Andronicus Quote Act iv. Scene 4.
Quote from Cymbeline...
"The game is up." Cymbeline Quote (Act III, Scene III).
"I have not slept one wink.". Cymbeline Quote (Act III, Scene III) As chaste as unsunn’d snow. Cymbeline Quote Act ii. Scene 5.
It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness. Cymbeline Quote Act iii. Scene 4.
Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. Cymbeline Quote Act iv. Scene 2.
Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Cymbeline Quote Act iv. Scene 2.
Quotes from Measure for Measure
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt". - ( Quote Act I, Scene IV).
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall". - ( Quote Act II, Scene I).
"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope". - ( Quote Act III, Scene I).
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt". - ( Quote Act I, Scene IV).
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall". - ( Quote Act II, Scene I).
"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope". - ( Quote Act III, Scene I).
The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Why, then the world 's mine oyster" - ( Quote Act II, Scene II).
"This is the short and the long of it". Merry Wives of Windsor ( Quote Act II, Scene II).
"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is". - ( Quote Act III, Scene II).
"As good luck would have it". - ( Quote Act III, Scene V).