"I do not set my life at a pin's fee."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I 'll make a ghost of him that lets me!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"O my prophetic soul! My uncle!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air; Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"While memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Within the book and volume of my brain."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables,--meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I 'm sure it may be so in Denmark."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Hor. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Every man has business and desire, Such as it is."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Art thou there, truepenny? Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage."

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!"

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind, A savageness in unreclaimed blood."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"This is the very ecstasy of love."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"More matter, with less art."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"That he is mad, 't is true: 't is true 't is pity; And pity 't is 't is true."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Find out the cause of this effect, Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"To be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Still harping on my daughter."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Ham. Words, words, words."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"They have a plentiful lack of wit."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"On fortune's cap we are not the very button."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"A dream itself is but a shadow."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"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!"

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"I know a hawk from a handsaw."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!"

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Come, give us a taste of your quality."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 't was caviare to the general."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?"

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?"

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Abuses me to damn me."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.