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2006-07-27 07:27:36 · 6 answers · asked by starlight l 2 in Education & Reference Quotations

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Polonius says this in Hamlet.
Actually, he says, "To thine OWN self be true."

He spouts off about a number of things, and them doesn't follow them himself, which makes his character sadly humorous.

2006-07-27 07:31:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Hamlet...William Shakespeare...and it to thine own self be true

In Act I, scene iii of Hamlet, the character of Polonius prepares his son Laertes for travel abroad with a speech (ll.55-81) in which he directs the youth to commit a "few precepts to memory." Among these percepts is the now-familiar adage "neither a borrower nor a lender be" (l.75) and the dictum: "This above all: to thine own self be true,/And it must follow, as the night the day,/Thou cans't not be false to any man "(ll.78-80). The occasion of the speech has been established in advance, for in the previous scene, Polonius has told the King and Queen that he has granted his son...

2006-07-27 14:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by The Krieg 3 · 0 0

To Thine Own Self Be True is from William Shakespere's Hamlet. You can find that line in Act I scene iii (3) when Polonius is preparing his son Laertes for traveling abroad. The line "To thine own self be true" is used in his speech. This is the whole verbage: "This above all: to thine own self be true,/And it must follow, as the night the day,/Thou cans't not be false to any man "....................Hope this is what you weree looking for.

2006-07-27 14:33:40 · answer #3 · answered by Cute Is What I Aim For 4 · 0 0

Shakespeare's Hamlet

2006-07-27 21:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Here....
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1204.html

2006-07-27 14:31:09 · answer #5 · answered by Velociraptor 5 · 0 0

Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

2006-07-27 14:33:30 · answer #6 · answered by RG 4 · 0 0

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