Imp lines from HAMLET

 Imp quotes from Hamlet by Shakespeare

“O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!”

(Hamlet, act 1 scene 2)

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

(Polonius, act 1 scene 3)

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

(Polonius, act 1 scene 3)

“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.”

(Polonius, act 1 scene 3)

“…though I am native here

And to the manner born, it is a custom

More honoured in the breach than the observance.”

(Hamlet, act 1 scene 4)

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.“

(Marcellus, act 1 scene 4)

“That one may smile and smile and be a villain.”

(Hamlet, act 1 scene 5)

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”

(Hamlet, act 1 scene 5)

“Brevity is the soul of wit.“

(Polonius, act 2 scene 2)

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

(Polonius, act 2 scene 2)

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

(Hamlet, act 2 scene 2)

“O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!“

(Hamlet, act 2 scene 2)

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.”

(Polonius, act 2 scene 2)

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in

reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving

how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel!

in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the

world! The paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is

this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no,

nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem

to say so..”

(Hamlet, act 2 scene 2)

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

(Hamlet, act 3 scene 1)

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

(Hamlet, act 3 scene 1)

“To die, to sleep –

To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub,

For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”

(Hamlet, act 3 scene 1)

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.“

(Gertrude, act 3 scene 2)

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

(Claudius, act 3 scene 3)

“I must be cruel only to be kind;

Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

(Hamlet, act 3 scene 4)

“How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge.“

(Hamlet, act 2 scene 4)

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest.“

(Hamlet, act 5 scene 1)

“If it be now, ’tis not to come: if it be not to come, it will be now: if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.”

(Hamlet, act 5 scene 2)

“The rest is silence.”

(Hamlet, act 5 scene 2)

“Goodnight, sweet prince,

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”

(Horatio, act 5 scene 2)

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”

(Horatio, act 5 scene 2)

“Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven“

(Claudius, Act 3 Scene 3)

“Now might I do it pat“

(Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 3)