Polonius From Hamlet Quotes

#1. Polonius to Laertes (in Hamlet): To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man [or woman].

Christopher Ryan

#2. 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.

William Shakespeare

#3. This is the very ecstasy of love.

William Shakespeare

#4. 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.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#6. 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.

William Shakespeare

#7. Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while, simply to be myself.

Lisa Mantchev

#8. ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.
HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -
GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?
HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#10. The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

Mignon McLaughlin

#11. Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

William Shakespeare

#12. POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.

HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.

William Shakespeare

#13. More grief to hide than hate to utter love. Polonius, Hamlet.

William Shakespeare

#14. Polonius: My lord, I will take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal ...

William Shakespeare

#15. Use them after your own honour and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit in your bounty. - Hamlet to Polonius

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare