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The lady doth protest too much
- A line from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare , spoken by Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. She is watching a play, and a character in it swears never to remarry if her husband dies. The play is making Hamlet's mother uncomfortable, because she herself remarried almost immediately after the murder of her first husband.
Example Sentences
The lady doth protest too much, he thinks, in the TV movie “Framed by My Husband.”
“The lady doth protest too much, me think. If you have you to explain as hard as you can, and spend with as much political might as you can, why you laid 4.4 million people off because you felt better to tell Mitch McConnell in a program that put out and saved 30 million jobs that you are going to hold it up to prove a point — that’s not what I’d want to hear in history,” he said.
As you cast about for meaning, you may remember Hamlet’s mother, the real queen, who in this same section says, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
It feels as though bringing the topic up would itself be proof that I do have sexual feelings for her—I don’t want her, or the women I would like to date for that matter, to think that the lady doth protest too much.
It consisted of claims of escalating wackiness combined with reassurances about the health of the economy that appeared so strained they brought to mind a line spoken by Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother: “The lady doth protest too much.”
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