Polonius Quotes in Hamlet

This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself, / And leads the will to desperate undertakings, / As oft as any passion under heaven / That does afflict our natures.

Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

Ay sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal, except my life, except my life, except my life.

Let her not walk i' th' sun. Conception is a blessing, but not as your daughter may conceive.

More matter, with less art.

’Tis too much prov’d, that with devotion’s visage / And pious action we do sugar o’er / The devil himself.

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

Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportion’d thought his act.

Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, / When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter, / Giving more light than heat, extinct in both, / Even in their promise, as it is a-making, / You must not take for fire.