Quotes from work

Hamlet

“Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.”

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“I am very proud, revengeful,
ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in.”

“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.”

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.”

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

“Sweets to the sweet.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”