"Whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"This sweaty haste Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"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."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"So have I heard, and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"The memory be green."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"The head is not more native to the heart."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A little more than kin, and less than kind."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'T is not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"'T is a fault to Heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"That it should come to this!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A little month."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Like Niobe, all tears."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A beast, that wants discourse of reason."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"It is not nor it cannot come to good."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"In my mind's eye, Horatio."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Season your admiration for a while."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"In the dead vast and middle of the night."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Arm'd at point exactly, cap-a-pe."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Hor. It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silver'd."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Let it be tenable in your silence still."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Gave it an understanding, but no tongue."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Springes to catch woodcocks."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Hor. It is a nipping and an eager air."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.