Quotes from 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, quote from 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, quote from Hamlet

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

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

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

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

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet: Between who?
Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in 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, quote from Hamlet

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

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

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet

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

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