The Hamlet Quotes

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

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

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

The rest is silence.

They say an old man is twice a child

Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

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

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

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

Mother, you have my father much offended.

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy - or in our physics.

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

To every corner of the planet, to the young and old, to all humanity. I see your beauty. I really do.