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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet , is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.

“The rest, is silence.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“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 Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“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.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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