Hamlet Quotes
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
- Hamlet, scene ii.Act II
What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!
- HORATIO,Act I. scene I
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
And there assume some other horrible form,
- HORATIO,Act I. scene IV
What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, -
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?
- Claudius, iii.Act III
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
- Hamlet, scene ii.Act II
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
- Claudius, scene v.Act III
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
- LORD POLONIUS,ACT II scene II
Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
- Hamlet, scene ii.Act III
Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?
- Hamlet scene iv.Act i
You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot
so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of
it:
- HAMLET,ACT III scene I
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