Top 9 Important Hamlet Quotes

This is the very ecstasy of love.

Love, Important Hamlet, Polonius

'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 1, l. 101

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

Soul, Important Hamlet, Polonius

William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

Laughing, Favour, Important Hamlet

'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge, Important Hamlet

William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet

'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

May, Bears, Important Hamlet

1600-1 Polonius to Laertes. Hamlet, act1, sc.3, l.65-7.

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 And Ophelia, Important Hamlet, Polonius

'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [221]

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

Grief, Persevere, Important Hamlet

'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 92

Important Hamlet Quotes