Horatio Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
  And for my soul, what can it do to that,
  Being a thing immortal as itself?

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Hamlet And Ophelia, Immortality

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 65

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• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorrow, Faces, Countenance

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 231

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• Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

  Horatio Nelson

  Night, Order, Years

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tempest

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]

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• The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

  Horatio Alger

  Age, Chivalry, Form

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• Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

  Horatio Nelson

  Hands, Haste, Legs

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

  Horatio Nelson

  Pain, War, Sea

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• Season your admiration for a while.

  William Shakespeare

  Admiration, Seasons

  William Shakespeare (1832). “Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott”, p.20

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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, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hamlet And Ophelia, Joints

  1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.189-90.

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• More matter with less art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hamlet And Ophelia, Matter

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 95

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• Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

  Horatio Nelson

  Neutrality, Break, Made

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.223

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• I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

  Horatio Nelson

  Eye, Sometimes, Blind

  1801 Said to Captain Foley during the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 Apr. Nelson disregarded the order of his superior, Admiral Hyde-Parker, to break off action and went on to win the engagement.

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• England expects that every man will do his duty.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Men, England

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mistake, Gentleman, Enemy

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• A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

  Aldous Huxley

  Smile, Men, Hamlet And Ophelia

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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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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• 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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• 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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• woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Is Me, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Ophelia

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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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• 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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• Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

  Horatio Nelson

  Trust, Opportunity, Justice

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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