Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
- from William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act I, Scene 1
Frailty, thy name is woman!
- from William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act I, Scene 2
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
- from William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act I, Scene 3
This above all: to thine ownself be true
- from William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act I, Scene 3
To be, or not to be: that is the question
- from William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act III, Scene 1
When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
- from William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act IV, Scene 5
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
- from William Shakespeare's Macbeth Act V, Scene 5
- All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances.
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet
- Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.
- As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
- Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty.
- He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.
- Be to yourself as you would to your friend.
- The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
- There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- They say, best men are moulded out of faults: And, for the most, become much more the better, for being a little bad.
- This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
- O! it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
- Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
- All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances.
- What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable!
- The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.
- Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
- They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain.
- Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
- Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.
- What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.
- What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?
- Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.
- As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
- We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.
- And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
- And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
- A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.
- Great floods have flown from simple sources.
- That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
- We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
- The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
- If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.