“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.Scene 3 · Polonius · ★★★★★→
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be: / For loan oft loses both itself and friend; / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.Scene 3 · Polonius · ★★★★★→
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, / I will be brief.Scene 2 · Polonius · ★★★★★→
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love.Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service,—two dishes, but to one table. That's the end.Scene 3 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;Scene 3 · Polonius · ★★★★☆→
“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; / And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, / With windlasses, and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.Scene 1 · Polonius · ★★★★☆→
