Hamlet Significant Quotes

• How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
  As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
  To put an antic disposition on.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Acting, Actors

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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

  William Shakespeare

  Funeral, Meat, Denmark In Hamlet

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

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• To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Honesty, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [179]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

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• O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Kings, Science

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Doe, Hue

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• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep, Heart

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

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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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• But that the dread of something after death,
  The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
  No traveller returns, puzzles the will
  And makes us rather bear those ills we have
  Than fly to others that we know not of?

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Country

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

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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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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: 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: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Dream

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

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• Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

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

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• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  Claudius

  Language And Power, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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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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• 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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• Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

  William Shakespeare

  Language Words, Heaven, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 97

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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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• 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Patience, Hamlet And Ophelia

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• To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

  Mark Twain

  Long, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech

  1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Play, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

  '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, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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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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