Laertes Quotes in Hamlet

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.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be: / For loan oft loses both itself and friend; / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Do not as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; / Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;

For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, / Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood; / A violet in the youth of primy nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting; / The perfume and suppliance of a minute; / No more.

To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation.

Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself / She turns to favour and to prettiness.

Laertes, was your father dear to you? / Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, / A face without a heart?

To cut his throat i' th' church.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, / And therefore I forbid my tears.