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Hamlet

Setting: Elsinore Castle

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Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Act I, Scene 5 · ★★★★☆
My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber, / Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac'd, / No hat upon his head, his stockings foul'd, / Ungart'red, and down-gyved to his ankle, / Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, / And with a look so piteous in purport / As if he had been loosed out of hell / To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
Act II, Scene 1 · Ophelia · ★★★★☆
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; / And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, / With windlasses, and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.
Act II, Scene 1 · Polonius · ★★★★☆
This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself, / And leads the will to desperate undertakings, / As oft as any passion under heaven / That does afflict our natures.
Act II, Scene 1 · Polonius · ★★★★☆
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, / That he should weep for her?
Act II, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Act II, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, / That I, the son of a dear father murder’d, / Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, / Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words / And fall a-cursing like a very drab, / A scullion!
Act II, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
Act II, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
Ay sir, to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Act II, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal, except my life, except my life, except my life.
Act II, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆

Setting: Elsinore Castle

185 quotes · Page 7 of 19