Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare -
Hamlet
220 Sourced Quotes
View all William Shakespeare Quotes
Source
Report...
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Polonius:
My honourable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
Hamlet:
You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life, except my life.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for thy better.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
A politician... one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
I am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand,
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched;
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled,
No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head:
O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
At your age
The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.
William Shakespeare
Source
Report...
Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
William Shakespeare
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Quote of the day
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. It's amazing to me how much we do, but how little time we spend reflecting on what we just did.
Margaret Wheatley
William Shakespeare
Creative Commons
Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
More about William Shakespeare...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes