“’Tis too much prov’d, that with devotion’s visage / And pious action we do sugar o’er / The devil himself.Act III, Scene 1 · Polonius · ★★★★☆→
“Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent: / When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage, / Or in th’incestuous pleasure of his bed, / At gaming, swearing; or about some act / That has no relish of salvation in’t, / Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, / And that his soul may be as damn’d and black / As hell, whereto it goes.Act III, Scene 3 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“May one be pardon’d and retain th’offence? / In the corrupted currents of this world / Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice, / And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself / Buys out the law.Act III, Scene 3 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend / Which is the mightier.Act IV, Scene 1 · Gertrude · ★★★★☆→
“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 · ★★★★☆→
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.Act IV, Scene 3 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
