Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

A little more than kin, and less than kind!

Hamlet 1.2

O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

Hamlet 1.2

Neither a borrower nor a lender be:

Polonius 1.3

This above all,—to thine own self be true;

Polonius 1.3

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Marcellus 1.4

Murder most foul, as in the best it is;

Ghost 1.5

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet 1.5

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief:—your

Polonius 2.2

Words, words, words.

Hamlet 2.2

Though this be madness, yet there is a method in’t.—

Polonius 2.2

there is nothing either 260 good or bad but thinking makes it so:

What a piece of work is man!

Hamlet 2.2

O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

Hamlet 2.2

this.—the play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.

Hamlet 2.2

To be, or not to be,—that is the question:—

Hamlet 3.1

Get thee to a nunnery:

Hamlet 3.1

Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.

Claudius 3.1

The lady protests too much, methinks.

Gertrude 3.2 "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

’Tis now the very witching time of night,

Hamlet 3.2

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Claudius 3.3

That I essentially am not in madness, But mad in craft.

from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Hamlet 3.4

Alas, poor Yorick!—I knew him, Horatio;

Hamlet 5.1

Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

Hamlet 5.1

there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

Hamlet 5.2

heart.—Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Horatio 5.2