Metaphor Quotes in Hamlet

But I have that within which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d / His canon ’gainst self-slaughter. O God! O God!

Neither a borrower nor a lender be: / For loan oft loses both itself and friend; / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Ay marry is’t; / And to my mind, though I am native here, / And to the manner born, it is a custom / More honour’d in the breach than the observance.

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right.

The serpent that did sting thy father’s life / Now wears his crown.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, / I will be brief.

The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.