Top 20 Quotes From Hamlet
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The Shakespeare play is full of quotes that we still use today.
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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
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"To be or not to be, that is the question."
"To be or not to be" is the most quoted line in the English language.
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
This could be the tag line if they ever make a Danish version of Hoarders.
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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
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"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
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"By and by is easily said."
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"Brevity is the soul of wit."
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"Frailty, thy name is woman!"
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"This above all: to thine own self be true."
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
I usually think this every time I try to meet a woman at a bar.
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"I must be cruel, only to be kind."
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
Maybe more people should have read Shakespeare before the sub prime mortgage collapse.
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"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead."
This line inspired the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and the B horror movie "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead".
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"Sweets to the sweet: farewell!"
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"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."
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"Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?"
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"I know a hawk from a handsaw."
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"A little more than kin, and less than kind."
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"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks."
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