Polonius Quotes in Hamlet

and there put on him / What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank / As may dishonour him; take heed of that; / But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips / As are companions noted and most known / To youth and liberty.

Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star. This must not be.

God's bodikin, man, much better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity.

Your noble son is mad.

For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion,—Have you a daughter?

These tedious old fools.

At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him. / Be you and I behind an arras then, / Mark the encounter.

That he is mad, ’tis true: ’tis true ’tis pity; / And pity ’tis ’tis true.

O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!

Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, / Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, / Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, / Into the madness wherein now he raves, / And all we wail for.