Hamlet theme Quotes by William Shakespeare

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

— William Shakespeare

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

— William Shakespeare

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that…

— William Shakespeare

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

— William Shakespeare

This is the very ecstasy of love.

— William Shakespeare

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

— William Shakespeare

So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.

— William Shakespeare

You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame

— William Shakespeare

“O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!”

— William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

— William Shakespeare

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

— William Shakespeare

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

— William Shakespeare

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

— William Shakespeare

It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"

— William Shakespeare

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not…

— William Shakespeare

You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

— William Shakespeare

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

— William Shakespeare