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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

“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.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“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!”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“Less art, more matter”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet

“As merry as the day is long.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Beatrice, Act II, scene i.
Much Ado About Nothing (1598)
Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“It puzzles the will.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“If your mind dislike anything obey it”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“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.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“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.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“therein lies the rub”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

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