“For ’tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own petard,Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“But like the owner of a foul disease, / To keep it from divulging, let it feed / Even on the pith of life.Act IV, Scene 1 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“Ay, sir; that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the King best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again.Act IV, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body. The King is a thing—Act IV, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“Diseases desperate grown / By desperate appliance are reliev'd, / Or not at all.Act IV, Scene 3 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“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 · ★★★★☆→
“Poor Ophelia / Divided from herself and her fair judgement, / Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts.Act IV, Scene 5 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“For ’tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own petard,Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“But like the owner of a foul disease, / To keep it from divulging, let it feed / Even on the pith of life.Act IV, Scene 1 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“Ay, sir; that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the King best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again.Act IV, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body. The King is a thing—Act IV, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“Diseases desperate grown / By desperate appliance are reliev'd, / Or not at all.Act IV, Scene 3 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“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 · ★★★★☆→
“Poor Ophelia / Divided from herself and her fair judgement, / Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts.Act IV, Scene 5 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→