Paradox
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
–Hamlet,
Act III, Scene iv

I must be cruel, only to be kind.
–Hamlet,
Act III, Scene iv

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.
–Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii

Brevity is the soul of wit.
–Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
–Hamlet,
Act IV, Scene v

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man
–Hamlet,
Act I, Scene iii

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
–Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii

Though this be madness, yet there is a method in’t.
—Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii