Famous Quotes

(Line numbers are out of the 1992 Washington Square Press version of the book. Some numbers may be different in other books.)

"A little more than kin and less than kind." (Hamlet: 1.2.67)

"Frailty, thy name is woman!" (Hamlet: 1.2.150)

"This above all - to thine own self be true..." (Polonius: 1.3.84)

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." (Marcellus: 1.4.100)

"The time is out of joint. O cursed spite/ That ever I was born to set it right!" (Hamlet: 1.5.210-211)

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." (Polonius: 2.2.223-224)

"The play's the thing..." (Hamlet: 2.2.633)

"To be or not to be - that is the question..." (Hamlet: 3.1.64)

"Get thee to a nunnery..." (Hamlet: 3.1.131)

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." (Claudius: 3.1.203)

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go." (Claudius: 3.3.203)

"I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room." (Hamlet: 3.4.235)

"Oh from this time forth,/ My thoughts by bloody or be nothing worth." (Hamlet: 4.4.68-69)

"We know what we are, but not what we may be..." (Ophelia: 4.5.48-49)

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio." (Hamlet: 5.1.190-191)

"Sweets to the sweet..." (Gertrude: 5.1.254)

"The cat will mew, and dog will have his day." (Hamlet: 5.1.311)

"The rest is silence." (Hamlet: 5.2.395)

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