Hamlet quotes

• Marcellus: '"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"'
• Hamlet: '"Seems madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems"'
• Hamlet: '"Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, come, deal justly with me"'
• Hamlet: '"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"'
• Hamlet: '"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."'
• Claudius: '"My words fly my thoughts remain below, words without thoughts never to heaven go"'
• Gertrude: '"The lady doth protest too much methinks"'
• Hamlet: '"The spirt that I have seen may be a devil – and the devil hath over to assume a pleasing shape"'
• Polonius: '"Your noble son is mad"'
• Hamlet: '"To be, or not to be: that is the question"'
• Claudius: '"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go"'
• Gertrude: '"mad as the sea and wind, when both contend which is mightier;"'
• Ophelia: '"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts."'
• Polonius: '"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"'
• Hamlet: '"I with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge"'
• Hamlet: '"The plays the thing wherein ill catch the conscience of the king"'
• Hamlet: '"Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; and now I'll do it, and so he goes to heaven; and so am I revenged"'
• Claudius: '"Revenge should have no bounds"'
• Laertes: '"To cut his throat i' th' church."'
• Fortinbras: '"go to gain a little patch of ground / That hath in it no profit but the name – the captain"'
• Hamlet: '"Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven, and that his soul may be damned and black as hell whereto it goes"'
• Ophelia: '"I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died"'
• Hamlet: '"O that this too too solid flesh would melt"'
• Hamlet: '"To die, to sleep – perchance to dream"'
• Horatio: '"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angles sing thee to thy resting place"'
• Hamlet: '"To be, or not to be, that is the question."'
• Hamlet: '"Sir in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep"
• Hamlet: '"O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, but in a fiction, in a dream of passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit"
• Claudius: "Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be, since I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder"
• Claudius: '"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go"'
• Claudius: '"O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven"'
• Hamlet: '"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love"
• Polonius: '"This is the very ecstasy of love"
• Polonius: '"you speak like a green girl"
• Hamlet: '"I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum"'
• Ophelia: '"My lord, he hath importuned me with love / In honorable fashion"'
• Polonius: '"The course of true love never did run smooth"'
• Hamlet: '"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."'
• Polonius: '"This above all: to thine own self be true"'
• Hamlet: '"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy"'