Best 12 quotes in «important hamlet quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

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

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

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.

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

This is the very ecstasy of love.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

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