Famous Hamlet Quotes

Brevity is the soul of wit

One may smile and smile and be a villain.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love.

Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.

The groundlings...for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.

When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

Are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

To be or not to be--that is the question.

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

More matter and less art.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth... than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

The lady protests too much, methinks.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

The rest is silence.

Tis the sport to have the enginer hoist with his own petard