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Shakespeare: Hamlet

Wonderful Quotes From Hamlet

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Act V, Sc. II
What imports the nomination of this gentleman?

Act III, Sc. II
The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian.

Act III, Sc. III
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

Act II, Sc. II
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

Act V, Sc. I
Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

Act V, Sc. I
'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so.

Act III, Sc. II
Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

Act I, Sc. V
Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.

Act V, Sc. I
Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
I'll rant as well as thou.

Act III, Sc. II
Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

Act III, Sc. II
And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcan's stithy.

Act V, Sc. I
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

Act II, Sc. II
O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!

Act III, Sc. II
The very age and body of the time his form and pressure.

Act III, Sc. III
About some act
That has no relish of salvation in 't.

Act III, Sc. IV
Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty.

Act III, Sc. IV
What act
That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?

Act V, Sc. I
One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.

Act I, Sc. I
Whose sore task
Does not divide the Sunday from the week.

Act III, Sc. IV
How is 't with you,
That you do bend your eye on vacancy?

Act III, Sc. IV
At your age
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

Act II, Sc. II
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Act V, Sc. II
I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
And hurt my brother.

Act I, Sc. II
All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

Act II, Sc. II
Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

Act III, Sc. I
O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!

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