Gretchen > Gretchen's Quotes

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts...
There’s fennel for you, and columbines; there’s rue for you, and here’s some for me; we may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say he made a good end,— [Sings.]
“For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Thought and afflictions, passion, hell itself, She turns to favor and to prettiness.
Song. And will a not come again? And will a not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy deathbed; He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow, Flaxen was his poll. He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan. God ’a’ mercy on his soul.”
― William Shakespeare

“I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe?

GUILDENSTERN: My lord, I cannot.

HAMLET: I pray you.

GUILDENSTERN: Believe me, I cannot.

HAMLET: I do beseech you.

GUILDENSTERN: I know no touch of it, my lord.

HAMLET: It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with our fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops.

GUILDENSTERN: But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony. I have not the skill.

HAMLET: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass, and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What do you read, my lord?
HAMLET: Words, words, words.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Tis in my memory lock'd,
And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives
must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear’t that th’opposèd may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous, chief in that. 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, Hamlet

“More matter with less art.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.”
― Wm. Shakespeare , Hamlet

“Therein lies the rub.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“As merry as the day is long.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England."
"Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?"
"Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there."
"Why?"
"'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Our wills and fates do so contrary run, that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“For some must watch, while some must sleep
So runs the world away”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare , Hamlet

“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone;
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“That he's mad, 'tis true,
'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true
—a foolish figure,”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, The nearer bloody.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“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;”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“This too shall pass”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“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?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“and the rest is silence”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Oh, I am slain!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet