Quotes from work

Hamlet

“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

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

“If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“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.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”