Hamlet – Mean Shakespeare Quotes

March 26

Go Home

Let the doors be shut upon him,
that he may play the fool no where but in’s own house.

–Hamlet,
Act III, Scene i

February 17

Famous Rejection

Get thee to a nunnery:
why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

—Hamlet,
Act III, Scene i

January 6

Body Police

The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
If she unmask her beauty to the moon.

-Hamlet,
Act I, Scene iii

December 18

Corrupted Currents

May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense?
In the corrupted currents of this world,
Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law.

–Hamlet,
Act III, Scene iii

November 3

The World Is Full of Knaves

There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.

–Hamlet,
Act I, Scene v

October 11

Coward

I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall.

-Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii

September 22

Concealer

The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word

–Hamlet,
Act III, Scene i