Denmark In Hamlet Quotes

• Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentines Day

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [115]

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Disease And Death, Political

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Night, World

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]

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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Despair, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Sadness, Sad Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

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• Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

  William Shakespeare

  Crazy, Wind, Mad

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [405]

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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

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• And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Goodnight, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]

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• To take arms against a sea of troubles.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Hamlet And Ophelia, Shapes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

  William Shakespeare

  Funeral, Meat, Hamlet And Ophelia

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Memorable, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 100

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• But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tradition

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 14

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• I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Hamlet And Ophelia, Be Kind

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.59

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• For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Murder, Speak

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [625]

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• Why, what should be the fear?
  I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Hamlet And Ophelia, Should

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.46, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Grace, Ministers

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  1600-1 Hamlet to Laertes. Hamlet, act 5, sc.1, l.288-9.

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• By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Ghost, Hamlet Revenge

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 84

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