“Our wills and fates do so contrary run / That our devices still are overthrown. / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.Scene 2 · ★★★★★→
“I have heard / That guilty creatures sitting at a play, / Have by the very cunning of the scene, / Been struck so to the soul that presently / They have proclaim’d their malefactions.Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“Is it not monstrous that this player here, / But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, / Could force his soul so to his own conceit / That from her working all his visage wan’d; / Tears in his eyes, distraction in’s aspect, / A broken voice, and his whole function suiting / With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! / For Hecuba?Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“I prithee, when thou see’st that act a-foot, / Even with the very comment of thy soul / Observe mine uncle. If his occulted guilt / Do not itself unkennel in one speech, / It is a damned ghost that we have seen;Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound. Didst perceive?Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
