Important Hamlet Quotes

This is the very ecstasy of love.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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