quotes in Hamlet
I think it be no other but e'en so: Well may it sort that this portentous figure Comes armed through our watch; so like the king That was and is the question of these wars.
- BERNARDO,Act I. scene I I'll speak to it though Hell itself should gape And bid me hold my peace.
- Hamlet scene ii.Act i
It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
- MARCELLUS,Act I. scene I
It is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
- Hamlet, scene iv.Act i
It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
- BERNARDO,Act I. scene I
Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!
- Laertes, scene i.Act V
Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
- Hamlet, scene ii.Act III
Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,
- QUEEN GERTRUDE,ACT IV scene I
Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby; That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay, Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly; Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.
- LORD POLONIUS,Act I. scene III
More matter with less art.
- Gertrude, scene ii.Act II
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