1. “To be, or not to be: that is the question.”
2. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”
3. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
4. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
5. “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties!”
6. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
7. “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
8. “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
9. “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
10. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
11. “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!”
12. “Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”
13. “The rest is silence.”
14. “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
15. “Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
16. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
17. “Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
18. “I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
19. “That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.”
20. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
21. “The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!”
22. “I must be cruel only to be kind.”
23. “To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub.”
24. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
25. “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.”
26. “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.”
27. “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.”
28. “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
29. “The cat will mew and dog will have his day.”
30. “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”
31. “There is a willow grows aslant a brook, that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.”
32. “Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”
33. “I have of late – but wherefore I know not – lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises.”
34. “To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
35. “What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?”
