Hamlet

“Words, words, words.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“I must be cruel, only to be kind:”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The readiness is all.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Get thee to a nunnery.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“O woe is me, t'have seen what I have seen, see what I see.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature;”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The rest is silence.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Sweets to the sweet. Farewell.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The lady protests too much, methinks.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be:”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The spirit that I have seen may be the devil, and the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Frailty, thy name is woman!”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

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

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》