William Shakespeare : Hamlet Quotes

Relief

For this relief much thanks: ’t is bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.

Divide the Sunday

Whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week.

Head native to the heart

The head is not more native to the heart.

All that lives must die

All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

He was a man

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

Thoughts no tongue

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Tongue vows

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows.

I am native here

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance.

Denmark

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Blossoms of my sin

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousell’d, disappointed, unaneled, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head.

Leave her to heaven

Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.

Villain

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables, - meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I ’m sure it may be so in Denmark.

Business and desire

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Heaven and earth

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Cause of this effect

Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause.

More than natural

There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out.

To be or not to be

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer, The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?