“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 · ★★★★☆→
“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 · ★★★★☆→
“I have words to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.Act IV, Scene 6 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“Laertes, was your father dear to you? / Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, / A face without a heart?Act IV, Scene 7 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“I will work him / To an exploit, now ripe in my device, / Under the which he shall not choose but fall; / And for his death no wind shall breathe, / But even his mother shall uncharge the practice / And call it accident.Act IV, Scene 7 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.Act V, Scene 1 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
