"The play 's the thing Wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the king."

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"I am myself indifferent honest."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers!"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"The very age and body of the time his form and pressure."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Not to speak it profanely."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Ham. O, reform it altogether."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"They are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.--Something too much of this."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Here 's metal more attractive."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I 'll have a suit of sables."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"There 's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"This is miching mallecho; it means mischief."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Ham. As woman's love."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"The story is extant, and writ in choice Italian."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"'T is as easy as lying."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"It will discourse most eloquent music."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Pluck out the heart of my mystery."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Pol. Very like a whale."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"They fool me to the top of my bent."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"By and by is easily said."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"'T is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"I will speak daggers to her, but use none."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"'T is not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"About some act That has no relish of salvation in 't."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

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

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"Dead, for a ducat, dead!"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.