Hamlet Madness Quotes – Exploring Shakespeare’s Most Iconic Lines

Though this be madness, yet there is a method in’t. – Polonius

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. – Claudius

I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. – Hamlet

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

O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! – Hamlet

I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. – Hamlet

These tedious old fools! – Hamlet

Words, words, words. – Hamlet

I am mad but north-north-west. – Hamlet

There’s method in my madness. – Hamlet

Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! – Ophelia

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. – Polonius

To be, or not to be: that is the question. – Hamlet

I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space. – Hamlet

Make mad the guilty, and appal the free – Hamlet

But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall. – Hamlet

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. – Ophelia

I am dead, Horatio. – Hamlet

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. – Gertrude

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. – Hamlet

Hamlet Madness Quotes – Exploring Shakespeare’s Most Iconic Lines part 2

I must be cruel, only to be kind. – Hamlet

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. – Hamlet

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

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. – Hamlet

Oh, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! – Hamlet

What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? – Hamlet

Sweets to the sweet. – Gertrude

Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. – Hamlet

Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core. – Hamlet

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – Macbeth (there’s a quote from Macbeth that can be connected to Hamlet’s madness)

I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. – Hamlet

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. – Hamlet

The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king. – Hamlet

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. – Hamlet

I will speak daggers to her, but use none. – Hamlet

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 wish’d. – Hamlet

But my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived. – Hamlet

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – Hamlet

That unmatched form and feature of blown youth blasted with ecstasy. – Ophelia

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

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. – Claudius

Brevity is the soul of wit. – Polonius

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

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. – Hamlet

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. – Hamlet