Hamlet Quotes

O Hamlet, what a falling off was there, / From me, whose love was of that dignity / That it went hand in hand even with the vow / I made to her in marriage; and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine.

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.

A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, / Denmark being one o’ th’ worst.

Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune!

Yet I, / A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak / Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, / And can say nothing.

That great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts.

There’s something in his soul / O’er which his melancholy sits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose / Will be some danger,

Let the gall'd jade wince; our withers are unwrung.

What, frighted with false fire?