Claudius Quotes in Hamlet

O God! A beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle, / My father’s brother; but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules.

O Hamlet, what a falling off was there, / From me, whose love was of that dignity / That it went hand in hand even with the vow / I made to her in marriage; and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine.

Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole / With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, / And in the porches of my ears did pour / The leperous distilment,

O my prophetic soul! Mine uncle!

Bloody, bawdy villain! Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!

At such a time I’ll loose my daughter to him. / Be you and I behind an arras then, / Mark the encounter.

Since nor th’exterior nor the inward man / Resembles that it was.

There’s something in his soul / O’er which his melancholy sits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose / Will be some danger,

Her father and myself, lawful espials, / Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing unseen, / We may of their encounter frankly judge,

Let the gall'd jade wince; our withers are unwrung.