The lady doth protest too much

Cultural  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

The lady doth protest too much, he thinks, in the TV movie “Framed by My Husband.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2021

And Laura, remembering her "Shakespeare," was ever ready with the words: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

From The Pit by Norris, Frank