Important quotes in Hamlet

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

This above all: to thine own self be true. – Polonius

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. – Marcellus

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

Brevity is the soul of wit. – Polonius

Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t. – Polonius

Give me that man that is not passion’s slave. – Horatio

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

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

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

This is the very ecstasy of love. – Polonius

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

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage. – Hamlet

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. – Ophelia

This is I, Hamlet the Dane. – Hamlet

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. – Queen Gertrude

The rest is silence. – Hamlet

The time is out of joint. – Hamlet

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

Frailty, thy name is woman. – Hamlet

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

Important quotes in Hamlet part 2

I must be cruel only to be kind. – Hamlet

Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong. – Laertes

Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew and dog will have his day. – Hamlet

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub. – Hamlet

There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. – Ophelia

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. – King Claudius

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth. – Hamlet

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet

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

Give me understanding, and I will keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. – Hamlet

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: words without thoughts never to heaven go. – King Claudius

I loved you not. – Hamlet

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! – Hamlet

This is the very coinage of your brain. – Polonius

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in’s own house. – Polonius

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

Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. – Ghost

What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba? – Hamlet

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil… – Hamlet

Sweets to the sweet: farewell! – Gertrude

Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, be thy intents wicked or charitable, thou comest in such a questionable shape that I will speak to thee. – Hamlet

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! – Horatio

This is the poison of deep grief; it springs all from her father’s death. O Gertrude, Gertrude, when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. – Claudius

O Hamlet, speak no more! – Horatio