- However, these nine years went by before I had reached any firm conclusions about the debates among scholars or began to look for principles of a more certain philosophy than those commonly accepted.
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks (Wikipedia)
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks” is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It is spoken by Queen Gertrude in response to the insincere overacting of a character in the play within a play created by Prince Hamlet to elicit evidence of his uncle’s guilt in the murder of his father, the King of Denmark.