Worth noting that this quotation is spoken by Polonius in Hamlet. According to Wikipedia: > He is chief counsellor of the play's ultimate villain, Claudius, a

Worth noting that this quotation is spoken by Polonius in Hamlet. According to Wikipedia: > He is chief counsellor of the play's ultimate villain, Claudius, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. Generally regarded as wrong in every judgment he makes over the course of the play, Polonius is described by William Hazlitt as a "sincere" father, but also "a busy-body, [who] is accordingly officious, garrulous, and impertinent".