William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
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"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?"
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)"
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliance are relieved,Or not at all."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?"
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and 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?"
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing"
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come..."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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