Quotes on Polonius

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

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

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.