William Quotes

"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." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "Neither a borrower nor a lender be: for loan oft loses both itself and friend; and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!" ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by 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, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare