Quotes from work

Hamlet

“Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life”

“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives
must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.”

“Tis in my memory lock'd,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”

“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

“We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself.”

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.”

“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

“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 ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.”

“A little more than kin, a little less than kind.”

“Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.”

“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.”

“There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.”