SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Hamlet

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

Polonius: He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave by laboursome petition, and at last upon his will I seal'd my hard concentration: I do beseech you, give him leave to go.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Queen: Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for that noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

King: but you must know, your father lost a father: that father, lost, lost his.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Laertes: but you must fear, his greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself; for on his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state;

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 34  

Polonius: Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Polonius: To thing own self be true.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Ophelia: He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me.

Polonius: affection! Pooh! You speak like a green girl

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Hamlet: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,

Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,

Be the intents wicked or charitable?

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 36  

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Polonius: He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave by laboursome petition, and at last upon his will I seal'd my hard concentration: I do beseech you, give him leave to go.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Queen: Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for that noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

King: but you must know, your father lost a father: that father, lost, lost his.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Laertes: but you must fear, his greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself; for on his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state;
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 34  

Polonius: Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Polonius: To thing own self be true.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Ophelia: He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me.

Polonius: affection! Pooh! You speak like a green girl

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Hamlet: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,

Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,

Be the intents wicked or charitable?
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 36  

Polonius: [Reads.] 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, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 2, p. 41  

Rosencrantz: for they say an old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 2, p. 44  

Ophelia: Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Hamlet: Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 48  

King Claudius: Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 48  

Queen: Alas, how is't with you, that you bend your eye on vacancy

And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 4, p. 55  

Horatio: [Reads.] Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded them. On the instant they got clear of our ship; so I alone became their prisoner.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 4, Scene 6, p. 62  

1st Clown: what is he that builds stronger than either the Mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?

2nd Clown: The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tentents.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, p. 65  

Horatio: You will lose this wager, my lord.

Hamlet: I do not think so; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice; I shall win at the odds.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 2, p. 70  

Horatio: Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 2, p. 71