"And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"False as dicers' oaths."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"A rhapsody of words."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"What act That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,-- A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it 's humble."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"A king of shreds and patches."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"How is 't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?"

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Confess yourself to heaven; Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"For 't is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar."

Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

"Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour 's at the stake."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"Come, my coach! Good night, sweet ladies; good night."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"Nature is fine in love, and where 't is fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"There 's rosemary, that 's for remembrance; . . . and there is pansies, that 's for thoughts."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"You must wear your rue with a difference. There 's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"His beard was as white as snow, All flaxen was his poll."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"A very riband in the cap of youth."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

"That we would do, We should do when we would."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

"One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

"Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will."

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

"1 Clo. Ay, marry, is 't; crowner's quest law."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Cudgel thy brains no more about it."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Has this fellow no feeling of his business?"

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"A politician, . . . one that would circumvent God."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?"

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe."

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

"To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till we find it stopping a bung-hole?"

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.