William Shakespeare

"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet

William Shakespeare

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

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends
Rough-hew them how we will."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"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."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"'Tis 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."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"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?"

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!"

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain"

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on 't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"Give me that man
That is not passion's slave and I will wear him
In my heart's core."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Have decided to do weekly quotes from Hamlet for a little while, as we're studying it at the moment, so think it might be useful. Enjoy :)

William Shakespeare

"And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (Sonnet 90)

William Shakespeare

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we may."

- 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"Love is not love
Which alters where it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to the remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark"

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (Sonnet 116)

William Shakespeare

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet

William Shakespeare

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", playwright and poet

William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet