TOP 10 hamlet quotes

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

9

Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

8

Hamlet: Is this a prologue or a posy of a ring?
Ophelia: Tis brief, my lord
Hamlet: As woman's love.

7

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

6

Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

5

How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's Passion"? What is the cause of inspiration?

4

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!--Hamlet (I, v, 106)

3

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

2

And so Yorick did not become a good citizen, but a Hamlet, a fool.

1

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.