Important hamlet Quotes by William Shakespeare

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

— William Shakespeare

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,…

— William Shakespeare

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

— 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

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

— William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

— William Shakespeare

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks…

— William Shakespeare

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

— 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

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast…

— William Shakespeare

“What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no…

— William Shakespeare

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

— William Shakespeare

This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

— William Shakespeare

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what…

— William Shakespeare

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear,…

— William Shakespeare

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

— William Shakespeare

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

— William Shakespeare