Hamlet Quotes

"To be, or not to be: that is the question"

Hamlet

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry"

Polonius

"That it should come to this!"

Hamlet

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

Gertrude

"A little more than kin, and less than kind".

Hamlet

"The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"

Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit"

Polonius

"When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions".

Claudius

"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

Hamlet

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Hamlet

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Hamlet

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."

Polonus

Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

Hamlet

"Sweets to the sweet."

Gertrude

"This above all, to thine own self be true."

Polonius

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

Marcellus

"I must be cruel only to be kind..."

Hamlet

"The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown."

King Hamlet

"The time is out of joint! O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right."

Hamlet