Mortality In Hamlet Quotes - Page 2

• 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 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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• He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Men, Looks

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memories, Remembrance

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Humanity

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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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• Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Desert, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [561]

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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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• 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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• 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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• Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Sparrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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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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• Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Puff, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47

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• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Memorable, Guilt

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.329, Classic Books Company

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