Polonius Quotes
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There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
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I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.
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Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life.
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A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
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Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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Those 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.
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More matter with less art.
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Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy 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 gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
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You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
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I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.
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Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
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The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.
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