Famous Hamlet Quotes

Act I.2

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!"

"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

"He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again."

- Famous Hamlet quotes Act 1 Scene 2

Act I.5

"Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!"

- Famous Hamlet quotes Act 1 Scene 5

Act I.3:

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops."

"Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear ’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment."

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true..."
- Famous Hamlet quotes Act 1 Scene 3

Act II.2

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"Find out the cause of this effect,
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause."

"To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

- Famous Hamlet quotes Act 2 Scene 2

Act I.4:

"though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance."

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

- Famous Hamlet quotes Act 1 Scene 4