Quotes from work

Hamlet

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”

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

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”

“To be or not to be, that is the question.”

“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet: Between who?
Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”

“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”

“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!”

“Less art, more matter”

“As merry as the day is long.”

“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.”

“It puzzles the will.”

“If your mind dislike anything obey it”

“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”

“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.”

“death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns”

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
And therefore I forbid my tears.”

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.”

“Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters?
Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
Ophelia: What is, my lord?
Hamlet: Nothing.”

“therein lies the rub”