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:
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“To understand
The signs that stars compose, we need depend
Only on stars that are entirely there
And the apparent space between them. There
Never need be lines between them, puzzling
Our sense of what is what.”
—John Hollander (b. 1929)