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"A little more than kin and less than kind."
Hamlet about Claudius
"To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil..."
Hamlet about death.
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
Polonius to Laertes
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
Gertrude about the play.
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
Hamlet to Laertes
"Thou wretched rash intruding fool, farewell. I took thee for thy better."
Hamlet to Polonius's corpse
"O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven. It hath the primal eldest curse upon it."
Claudius about his crime.
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
Claudius about praying
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
Hamlet about Claudius
"Man delights not me; no,
nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem
to say so..."
Hamlet to Rosencrantz
"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
Claudius about Hamlet
“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”
Hamlet to Polonius
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
Hamlet to Ophelia
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
Hamlet to Polonius
"I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, for though I am not splenitive and rash, yet have I in me something dangerous, which let thy wisdom fear."
Hamlet to Laertes.
“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”
Polonius to Laertes.
"What? Frighted with false fire?"
Hamlet about Claudius
"High and Mighty, you shall know that I am set naked on your kingdom."
Hamlet's letter to Claudius.
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
Polonius about Hamlet
"My hour is almost come, when I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames must render up myself.
Ghost to Hamlet
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
Claudius about Polonius's death.
“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”
Hamlet to Horatio
“The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.”
Hamlet soliloquy.
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.”
Polonius to Ophelia