Hamlet Quotes

I'm reading Hamlet (Shakespeare) so expect a few of "My 100 favorite quotes from Hamlet" LOL.

Polonius's best speech: Telling his son Laertes how to behave in college

"And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:
The 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-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear't, that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few they voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not guady:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
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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;

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Can you imagine how awesome life would be if most people followed this advice?

Shakespearean quotes

"Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad:
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time."

~Marcellus (Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1)