Metaphor Quotes in Hamlet

Hamlet · William Shakespeare

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Come, come, and sit you down, you shall not budge. / You go not till I set you up a glass / Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
Such an act / That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, / Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose / From the fair forehead of an innocent love, / And sets a blister there.
Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Act III, Scene 4 · Gertrude · ★★★★☆
Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down, / And let me wring your heart, for so I shall, / If it be made of penetrable stuff;
Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
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 · ★★★★☆
Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.
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 · ★★★★☆

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