Shakespeare Denmark Quotes & Sayings

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II? — Edward Abbey

Behold your nakedness as a precious stone, which not every miner is able to dig it out. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay ... — Roger Zelazny

Something's rotten in Denmark." ~~Hamlet — William Shakespeare

The absolute defining moment of my life was the day the drug deal went bad. It started out just like any other day, at least for the girlfriend of a dealer. However, this time, it went bad. Really bad. — Valerie Fries Wade

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once ... — James Joyce

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. — William Shakespeare

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare

Why should I bend for something which I deserve. Give it in my hands! — Nelson Jack

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. — Benjamin Disraeli

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. — Pranab Mukherjee

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. — William Shakespeare

You can't just skip the boring parts."
"Of course I can skip the boring parts."
"How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?"
"I can tell."
"Then you can't say you've read the whole play."
"I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark."
"Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't. — Gary D. Schmidt

Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee. — William Shakespeare

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown. — William Shakespeare

To take arms against a sea of troubles. — William Shakespeare

Denmark's a prison. — William Shakespeare

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain:
At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark: — William Shakespeare

Theologians have done more to hide the Gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries. — George MacDonald

Somewhere Chesterton writes
I think it is Chesterton
that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to. — Alec Wilkinson

I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts. — Gylve Nagell

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. — William Shakespeare

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. — Eugene V. Debs

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons. — Gregory A. Boyd

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. — William Shakespeare

Angels and ministers of grace defend us. — William Shakespeare