“O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword, / Th’expectancy and rose of the fair state, / The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / Th’observ’d of all observers, quite, quite down!Act III, Scene 1 · Ophelia · ★★★★☆→
“Her speech is nothing, / Yet the unshaped use of it doth move / The hearers to collection; they aim at it, / And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts,Act IV, Scene 5 · ★★★★☆→
“Poor Ophelia / Divided from herself and her fair judgement, / Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts.Act IV, Scene 5 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself / She turns to favour and to prettiness.Act IV, Scene 5 · Laertes · ★★★★☆→
“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, / And therefore I forbid my tears.Act IV, Scene 7 · Laertes · ★★★★☆→
“I lov’d Ophelia; forty thousand brothers / Could not, with all their quantity of love, / Make up my sum.Act V, Scene 1 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“The canker galls the infants of the spring / Too oft before their buttons be disclos’d, / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth / Contagious blastments are most imminent.Act I, Scene 3 · Laertes · ★★★☆☆→
“The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she unmask her beauty to the moon.Act I, Scene 3 · Laertes · ★★★☆☆→