Hamlet Quotes

Hamlet · William Shakespeare

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What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Act IV, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
How stand I then, / That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d, / Excitements of my reason and my blood, / And let all sleep, while to my shame I see / The imminent death of twenty thousand men / That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, / Go to their graves like beds,
Act IV, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
Rightly to be great / Is not to stir without great argument, / But greatly to find quarrel in a straw / When honour's at the stake.
Act IV, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
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 · ★★★★☆
To my sick soul, as sin’s true nature is, / Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. / So full of artless jealousy is guilt, / It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Act IV, Scene 5 · Gertrude · ★★★★☆
There’s such divinity doth hedge a king, / That treason can but peep to what it would, / Acts little of his will.—
Act IV, Scene 5 · Claudius · ★★★★☆
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation.
Act IV, Scene 5 · Laertes · ★★★★☆
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 · ★★★★☆
They have dealt with me like thieves of mercy.
Act IV, Scene 6 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆

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