The Graveyard Quotes — Hamlet

There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they hold up Adam's profession.

Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with 'em? Mine ache to think on't.

Her obsequies have been as far enlarg’d / As we have warranties. Her death was doubtful; / And but that great command o’ersways the order, / She should in ground unsanctified have lodg’d / Till the last trumpet.

If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o' Christian burial.

Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's spade.

The houses he makes last till doomsday.

And the more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even Christian.

Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?

the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.—

Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?