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Quotes from Hamlet — William Shakespeare

1564–1616 England

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To be or not to be, that is the question.

Hamlet (1600)

The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

Hamlet (1600)

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

Hamlet (1600)

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

Hamlet (1600)

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance.

Hamlet (1600)

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake the god of day.

Hamlet (1600)

But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.

Hamlet (1600)

What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god!

Hamlet (1600)

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Hamlet (1600)

To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil..."

Hamlet (1599)

Frailty, thy name is woman!—
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears;—why she, even she,
* * * married with my uncle.

Hamlet (1600)

Polonius, Act I, scene iii.

Hamlet (1600)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.