Best quotes from Hamlet

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

To be or not to be—that is the question.

[(III.i.)]

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

[(I.ii.)]

What’s Hecuba to him, or he to her, That he should weep for her?

[(II.ii.)]

Sweets to the sweet

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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

[(V.ii.)]

I have heard of your paintings well enough. God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another […] It hath made me mad.

[(III.i.)]

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? To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub.