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- Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
- To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
- What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
- Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
- Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
- But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
- 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,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
- A little more than kin, and less than kind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
- Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 8
- Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 5
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