Hamlet Quotable Quotes

Act 1 24. The dram of evil Doth all the noble substance of
1. Long live the king!1 a doubt To his own scandal23
2
2. For this relief much thanks 25. Let me not burst in ignorance24
3. Not a mouse stirring3 26. He waxes desperate with imagination25
4. But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state. 4 Act 2
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5. A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye. 27. Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth 26
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6. And our vain blows malicious mockery. 28. But indirections find directions out27
7. The head is not more native to the heart, the 29. Mad for thy love!28
hand more instrumental to the mouth 7 30. This is the very ecstasy of love29
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8. A little more than kin, and less than kind. 31. As it is common for the younger sort
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9. All that lives must die To lack discretion.30
10. For they are actions that a man might play 10 32. Being kept close, might move
11. For what we know must be11 More grief to hide than hate to utter love. 31
12. O, That this too too solid flesh would melt, 33. To lay our service freely at your feet,
13. Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.12 To be commanded.32
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14. Frailty, thy name is woman! 34. I hold my duty as I hold my soul33
15. It is not, nor it cannot, come to good; 35. We’ll read,
But break my heart for I must hold my tongue! 14 Answer, and think upon this business. 34
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16. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 36. Brevity is the soul of wit35
17. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; 37. Thus is remains and the remainder thus. 36
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy 38. More matter with less art.37
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judgment. 39. Doubt thou the stars are fire;
18. The apparel oft proclaims the man17 Doubt that the sun doth move;
19. Neither a borrower nor a lender be: Doubt truth to be a liar;
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For loan oft loses both itself and friend. But never doubt I love.38
20. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry 19 40. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one
21. This above all: to thine own self be true. 20 man picked out of ten thousand39
22. You must not take for fire.21 41. Conception is a blessing40
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23. Sine nature cannot choose his origin

1
Bernardo 1.1.3
2
Francisco 1.1.8
3
Francisco 1.1.10
4
Horatio 1.1.68-69
5 23
Horatio 1.1.112 Hamlet 1.4.36-38
6 24
Marcellus 1.1.146 Hamlet 1.4.46
7 25
King 1.2.47-48 Horatio 1.4.86
8 26
Hamlet 1.2.65 Polonius 2.1.63
9 27
Queen 1.2.72 Polonius 2.1.66
10 28
Hamlet 1.2.84 Polonius 2.1.86
11 29
King 1.2.98 Polonius 2.1.103
12 30
Hamlet 1.2.129-130 Polonius 2.1.118-119
13 31
Hamlet 1.2.146 Polonius 2.1.120-121
14 32
Hamlet 1.2.158-159 Guildenstern 2.2.31-32
15 33
Polonius 1.3.61 Polonius 2.2.44
16 34
Polonius 1.3.68-69 King 2.2.82-83
17 35
Polonius 1.3.72 Polonius 2.2.90
18 36
Polonius 1.3.75-76 Polonius 2.2.104
19 37
Polonius 1.3.77 Queen 2.2.95
20 38
Polonius 1.3.78 Polonius (Hamlet letter) 2.2.115-118
21 39
Polonius 1.3.120 Hamlet 2.2.176-177
22 40
Hamlet 1.4.26 Hamlet 2.2.182
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42. Thought this be madness, yet there is method 59. For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but
in’t.41 we shall relish of it58
43. A happiness that often madness hits on, which 60. For wise men know well enough what monsters
reason and sanity could not so prosperously be you make of them.59
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delivered of. 61. To have seen what I have seen, see what I see 60
44. You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I 62. Madness in great ones should not unwatch’d
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will more willingly part withal, except my life go61
45. There is nothing good or bad but thinking 63. Tis brief my love, as woman’s love62
44
makes it so 64. Where little fears grow, great love grows there 63
46. A dream itself is but a shadow45 65. In second husband let me be accurst!
47. So shall my anticipation prevent your None wed the second, but who kill’d the first. 64
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discovery 66. A second time I kill my husband dead when
48. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in second husband kisses me in bed65
reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and 67. Purpose is but the slave to memory66
moving how express and admirable! In action 68. Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune
how like an angel! In apprehension how like a love67
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God! 69. If once a widow, ever I be wife68
49. Use them after your own honour and dignity: 70. The lady protest too much, methinks69
the less they deserve the more merit is in your 71. You do bar the door of your own liberty, if you
bounty48 deny your griefs to your friend70
50. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! 49 72. Call me what instrument you will, though you
51. For murder, though it hath no tongue, will can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me. 71
speak 73. Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak
With most miraculous organ.50 daggers to her, but use none.72
Act 3 74. Though inclinations be as sharp as will: My
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52. With all my heart stronger guilt defeats my strong intent 73
53. If’t be the affliction of his love or no That thus 75. Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice 74
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he suffers for 76. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
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54. To be, or not to be: that is the question Words without thought never to heaven go. 75
55. For who would bear the whips and scorns of 77. You cannot call it love76
54
time 78. Since frost itself as actively doth burn77
56. Thus conscience makes cowards of us all 55
57. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind 56 79. Assume a virtue, if you have it not78
58. That if you be honest and fair, your honesty 58
Hamlet 3.1.117-118
should admit no discourse to your beauty 57 59
Hamlet 3.1.139-140
60
Ophelia 3.1.163
61
King 3.1.190
41 62
Polonius 2.2.204-205 Hamlet/Ophelia 3.2.149-150
42 63
Polonius 2.2.208-210 Player Queen 3.2.168
43 64
Hamlet 2.2.214-215 Player Queen 3.2.175-176
44 65
Hamlet 2.2.249-250 Player Queen 3.2.180-181
45 66
Hamlet 2.2.260 Player King 3.2.184
46 67
Hamlet 2.2.293-294 Player king 3.2.199
47 68
Hamlet 2.2.303-307 Player Queen 3.2.219
48 69
Hamlet 2.2.526-528 Queen 3.2.224
49 70
Hamlet 2.2.545 Rosencrantz 3.2.329-330
50 71
Hamlet 2.2.591-592 Hamlet 3.2.361-363
51 72
King 3.1.24 Hamlet 3.2.386-387
52 73
King 3.1.36-37 King 3.3.40-41
53 74
Hamlet 3.1.57 King 3.3.59
54 75
Hamlet 3.1.71 King 3.3.98-99
55 76
Hamlet 3.1.84 Hamlet 3.4.70
56 77
Polonius 3.1.103 Hamlet 3.4.88
57 78
Hamlet 3.1.107-108 Hamlet 3.4.162
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80. I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins After the thing it loves.96
and worse remains behind.79 98. This nothing’s more than matter97
99. It warms the very sickness in my heart 98
Act 4 100. For youth no less becomes
81. A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.80 The light and careless livery that it wears 99
82. The body is with the king, but the king is not 101. Love is begun by time100
with the body. The king is a thing —81 102. Revenge should have no bounds101
83. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of
a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that Act 5
82
worm. 103. He that is not guilty of his own death, shortens
84. Till I know ‘tis done, not his own life102
83
Howe’er my haps, my joys were ne’er begun. 104. The hand of little employment hath the daintier
85. How all occasions do inform against me, sense.103
84
And spur my dull revenge! 105. Lay her I' the earth:
86. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw May violets spring!104
85
When honour’s at the stake. 106. Sweets to the sweet: fare well!105
87. O, from this time forth, 107. The devil take thy soul!106
86
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! 108. Yet have I something in me dangerous,
88. And botch the words up to fit their own Which let thy wisdom fear.
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thoughts Hold off thy hand!107
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89. Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss 109. The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 108
90. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what 110. Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well109
we may be89 111. To know a man well, were to know himself 110
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91. Young men will do’t if they come to’t 112. He did comply with his dug before he sucked
92. When sorrows come, they come not single it111
spies, But in battalias!91 113. Since no man is aught of what he leaves, what
93. Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and is’t to leave betimes?112
whispers92 114. That I have shot mine arrow o’er the house 113
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94. As the world were now but to begin 115. The rest is silence114
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95. I dare damnation 116. Now cracks a noble heart.115
96. Let come what comes95

97. Nature is fine in love, and where ‘tis fine 96

Ophelia 4.5.159-161
It sends some precious instance of itself 97
Laertes 4.5.172
98
Laertes 4.7.56
79 99
Hamlet 3.4.180-182 King 4.7.79-80
80 100
Hamlet 4.2.24-25 King 4.7.112
81 101
Hamlet 4.2.28-29 King 4.7.129
82 102
Hamlet 4.3.28-29 First Clown 5.1.19-20
83 103
King 4.3.68-69 Hamlet 5.1.69-70
84 104
Hamlet 4.4.31-32 Laertes 5.1.232-234
85 105
Hamlet 4.4.52-55 Queen 5.1.238
86 106
Hamlet 4.4.65 Laertes 5.1.253
87 107
Hamlet 4.5.10 Hamlet 5.1.256-257
88 108
Queen 4.5.19 Hamlet 5.1.286
89 109
Ophelia 4.5.42-43 Hamlet 5.2.8
90 110
Ophelia 4.5.59 Hamlet 5.2.136-137
91 111
King 4.5.76-77 Hamlet 5.2.181
92 112
King 4.5.80 Hamlet 5.2.214
93 113
Gentleman 4.5.101 Hamlet 5.2.233
94 114
Laertes 4.5.131 Hamlet 5.2.351
95 115
Laertes 4.5.133 Horatio 5.2.352
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