Polonius's Quotes

#1. 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mignon McLaughlin

#6. Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.'
It was her version of Polonius' speech to Laertes. With that wisdom in my pouch, I was to go out and buy my future.

Maya Angelou

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#9. 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

#10. I told you guys ... don't stop believing.

Sebastian Vettel

#11. 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

#12. Words, words, words. Polonius

William Shakespeare

#13. So I guess this means Domme Isa will be retired for a while until he feels satiated. But I'll be damned if she'll be retired forever. I want to know the real Dylan because apparently I've only been fucking his representative.

Ella Dominguez

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

William Shakespeare

#15. To thine ownself be true - Polonius

William Shakespeare

#16. Forgive me. I didn't mean to kill you, Polonius. The blade slipped out of the sheath, and it struck you.

Osamu Dazai

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

William Shakespeare

#18. I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

Phil Anselmo

#19. Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

Amy Poehler

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

Lynn Steward

#21. 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

#22. The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

Francisco Varela

#23. If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.

Conor Oberst

#24. - 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

#25. I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

Ricky Schroder

#26. He looks at me, not like he's waiting for an explanation, but like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at.

Veronica Roth

#27. 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

#28. I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#29. After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

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

William Shakespeare

#31. 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

#32. This is the very ecstasy of love.

William Shakespeare

#33. 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

#34. 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