“Neither a borrower nor a lender be: / For loan oft loses both itself and friend; / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.Act I, Scene 3 · Polonius · ★★★★★→
“Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love.Act II, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature;Act III, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Our wills and fates do so contrary run / That our devices still are overthrown. / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.Act III, Scene 2 · ★★★★★→
“O, from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.Act IV, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Not a whit, we defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.Act V, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★★→
“Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, / Th’imperial jointress to this warlike state, / Have we, as ’twere with a defeated joy, / With one auspicious and one dropping eye, / With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, / In equal scale weighing delight and dole, / Taken to wife;Act I, Scene 2 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“Angels and ministers of grace defend us! / Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d, / Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, / Be thy intents wicked or charitable, / Thou com’st in such a questionable shape / That I will speak to thee.Act I, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“Diseases desperate grown / By desperate appliance are reliev'd, / Or not at all.Act IV, Scene 3 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→