Top Hamlet Quotes

Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store...

A thought expressed is a falsehood. In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism make...

Hamlet Definition

(n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to...

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of...

To every corner of the planet, to the young and old, to all humanity. I see your beauty. I really do.

In fact a favourite problem of is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush..."To be, or...

Many terribly quiet customers exist but none moreterribly quiet than Manhis footsteps pass so perilously soft across the seain marble winterup the stiff blue waves and every Tuesdaydown he grinds the...

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

Mother, you have my father much offended.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not now, yet it will come: thereadiness i...

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project, to people, to a family, you think of nothing else for weeks a...

We've been rehearsing a classic from antiquity, , the story of a young prince of Denmark who goes mad, drowns his girlfriend, and in his remorse, forces spoiled breakfast on all whom he meets.

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

In my nervous frame of mind I expected to see the ghost of Hamlet wandering on the legendary castle terrace.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.