Famous Lines
Polonius's most famous lines are found in Act 1, Scene 3, when he gives advice to his son Laertes in the form of sententious maxims: "To thine own self be true," as well as other phrases still in use today, such as "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" and enduring paraphrased aphorisms as: “Clothes make the man”; and “Old friends are the best friends.” Among his famous lines are also the lines: "Brevity is the soul of wit"; and "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." found in Act 2, Scene 2.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or lines:
“What climbs the stair?
Nothing that common women ponder on
If you are worth my hope! Neither Content
Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family
Some ancient famous authors misrepresent,
The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Who will in fairest book of Nature know
How virtue may best lodged in beauty be,
Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
There shall he find all vices’ overthrow,
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
Of reason,”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)