Appearance versus Reality Quotes in Hamlet

Hamlet · William Shakespeare

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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 · ★★★★☆
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 · ★★★★☆
Look here upon this picture, and on this, / The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
Act III, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆
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 · ★★★★☆
Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.
Act IV, Scene 3 · 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 · ★★★★☆

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