What does this Shakespeare qoute mean???

Question

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

Answer 1

You can doubt everything that's true and proven, just don't doubt my love.

Answer 2

theres always the possibility that the stars are nor made of fire, there is the possibility that the sun does not move, there is a possibility that the truth is false, but there is no way that i dont love you. basically it means if i know one truth it is that i love you. or some c**p like that.

Answer 3

You can doubt anything thing you want even if you're wrong but never doubt that I love you. Just telling someone to never stop believing in his love, that he loves them.

Answer 4

It just means you can doubt all things, but his love is one thing you should never doubt.

Answer 5

it means that you can doubt anything but the only thing you cannot doubt is love

love is the most imprtant/ obvious thing in the world

Answer 6

Basically, it means that you can doubt all the proven truths in the world (i.e. sky is blue, 2+2=4), but never doubt their love for it is more true than anything ever known.

Nice quote!

Answer 7

This was in a letter Hamlet wrote to Ophelia and basically what he is saying is that Ophelia can doubt that the stars are made of fire, that the sun moves (or goes through it's cycle around the Earth), or that truth is really a liar, but must never doubt that Hamlet loves her. He is really emphasizing the deepness and truth of his love by saying that even if everything she knows in this life, even things that are laws of nature and universal truths (like the sun's cycle, the stars, the truth), even if these fail her his love will still remain.

How romantic, right? And almost biblical in a sense... (like "if the mountains tremble, etc etc, the Lord thy God will never leave you")

Answer 8

It means his love is true beyond any doubt.

Answer 9

in simple words, it means "I" question the existence of stars, sun (whether it moves or we move) and question truth cause it could be a lie. but "I" never doubt love

let me know if this is the best answer :)

Answer 10

everything can make no sense, but i love (you?).

Answer 11

say believe wat u want but i still love

Answer 12

doubt proven facts and doubt nature and even the world itself, but dont ever for one second doubt my love. like his love kind of overpowers everything

Answer 13

seems kind of literal from what i see.  paraphrasing it says "you doubt the stars are fire and that the sun moves.  you doubt the truth, but never doubt that i love."  never doubt i love?

Answer 14

All of these things are obvious and wouldn't be doubted by anyone:

That the stars are fire,

that the sun moves across the sky,

that the truth is not a lie...

So he is saying that even if you were crazy enough to doubt all of these things which are obviously true, you should never doubt his love.

i.e. His love is more true and proven than any of those things.

Answer 15

(You can) Doubt that the stars are fire

(You can) Doubt that the sun moves

(You can) Doubt truth and think it is a liar

But never doubt (that) I love (you?)

I'll bet that's what old Willy meant.

Answer 16

If everything else is wrong and everything turns out to be a fake you can know for sure that my love still is true.

Answer 17

Ok, so we know that in the first 3 lines, he is referring to things that are commonly known (in that time period anyway.  We now know that the sun doesn't actually move, but that the planets are the ones that move) to be truthful or fact.  What he is saying is that you can not believe in anything you want, even though everyone else knows they are fact, but you can't doubt, or not believe in his love.  He is trying to say that his love is obvious and can't be misunderstood.  

Hope this helps... :-)

Answer 18

Hamlet is telling Ophelia not to doubt that he loves her, in the strongest terms this tormented youth can summon up --saying that even if she questions what was generally taken to be true in their time, about some of the most powerful forces in the universe, that the stars are made of fire, and that the sun moves, and if she goes beyond that to question that there is even such a thing as truth, still she should never doubt Hamlet's love for her -- quite ironic, as things turn out (even though he ends the letter to Ophelia with "but that I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.")

Answer 19

You can have doubts about anything but never doubt his love.

Answer 20

Question the most fundamental principles of the universe, (at that specific time), but never question how much I love you.  Basically, I love you and do not doubt it.

Answer 21

He's saying that compared to his love, the things that are considered to be constant are inconstant.  Truth might lie but his love is never-ending.