30 Famous Hamlet Quotes By William Shakespeare 2023

Hamlet Quotes

“O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

“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 own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“…though I am native here

And to the manner born, it is a custom

More honoured in the breach than the observance.”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

“That one may smile and smile and be a villain.”

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.“

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

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

“O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.”

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

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

“To die, to sleep –

To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub,

For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

“The lady protests too much, methinks.”

“I must be cruel only to be kind;

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

“How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge.“

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest.“

“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.”

“The rest is silence.”

“Goodnight, sweet prince,

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”