Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5 Quotes

#1. Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not
"false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and
nothing else, because it is false and misleading.

Paul De Man

#2. I live. I write. I watch old movies. I read. I watch the sunset. I watch the moon rise.

W.P. Kinsella

#3. I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.

Jane Poynter

#4. Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#5. ... love born of the worst kind of loss, of knowing you could lose, and of the sobering knowledge that these cherished moments they chose to grasp this night were stolen from the hands of time.

Susan Rodgers

#6. It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians.

William Shakespeare

#7. Where am I?" you ask. Where you are is where the things you've denied worshipping have taken you.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

Lydia Davis

#9. One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Criss Jami

#10. Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

Anne Stevenson

#11. The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.

Jane Fonda

#12. I'm not really comfortable in any one spot.

Neil Diamond

#13. The power of touch. Life is controlled by such a facet manipulated by Man. All are knowledgeable of its boundaries, most are negligent.

Brian Vihlen

#14. Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.

William Shakespeare

#15. We must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. I love challenges.

Max Baucus

#17. The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

William Shakespeare

#18. In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. . .
(Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)

William Shakespeare

#19. I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

Quentin Crisp