The best Hamlet quotes

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

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

[(III.i.)]

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

[(II.ii.)]

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.)]

Sweets to the sweet

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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.

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.)]