Polonius Shakespeare Quotes

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#3. To thine ownself be true - Polonius

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#5. Words, words, words. Polonius

William Shakespeare

#6. 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

#7. Don't Set Success as Your Goal. Set Goals which lead you to Success

Laksh Kishore

#8. If the king had given me for my own
Paris, his citadel,
And I for that must leave alone
Her whom I love so well,
I'd say then to the Crown
Take back your glittering town
My darling is more fair, I swear.
My darling is more fair.

Richard Wilbur

#9. If you were a kangaroo you'd forget you've got a joey in your pouch.

Steve Fowler

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

William Shakespeare

#11. 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

#12. The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

Shirley Chisholm

#13. 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

#14. If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

William Shakespeare

#15. Love? His affections do not that way tend

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#17. To paraphrase Shakespeare's Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.

Lynn Steward

#18. The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#19. 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

#20. - Where is Polonius?
- In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself.

William Shakespeare

#21. 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

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

William Shakespeare

#23. 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

#24. This is the very ecstasy of love.

William Shakespeare