Hamlet quotes
Act I
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My hour is almost come
When I to sulphrous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself. - Ghost, Act I, Scene V
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The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown. - Ghost, Act I, Scene V
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A little more than kin, and less than kind. - Hamlet, Act I, Scene II
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All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity. - Gertrude, Act I, Scene II
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. - Polonius, Act I, Scene III
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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. - Polonius, Act I, Scene III
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. - Polonius, Act I, Scene III
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Act II
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. - Polonius, Act II, Scene II
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The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. - Hamlet, Act II, Scene
II
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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. - Hamlet, Act II, Scene II
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That I, the son of a dear father murdered,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,
and fall a-cursing like a very drab. - Hamlet, act II, Scene II
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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, Scene II
Act III
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks. - Gertrude, Act III, Scene II
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Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. - Hamlet, Act
III, Scene II
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - Claudius, Act III, Scene III
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I say, we will have no more marriages: those that are married already, - all but one, - shall
live; the rest shall keep as they are. - Hamlet, Act III, Scene I
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O, woe is me; To have seen what I have seen, see what I see! - Ophelia, Act III, Scene I
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O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven. - Claudius, Act III, Scene III
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I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. - Act III,
Scene IV
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - Ophelia, Act III, Scene II
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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. - Hamlet, Act III, Scene I
Act IV
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. - Act IV, Scene V
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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears. - Laertes,
Act IV, Scene VII
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I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come;
It warms the very sickness in my heart,
That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
'Thus didest thou. - Laertes, Act IV, Scene VII
Act V
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Hear you, sir;
What is the reason that you use me thus?
I loved you ever: but it is no matter;
Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew and dog will have his day. - Hamlet, Act V, Scene I
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I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum. - Hamlet, Act V, Scene I
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Lay her i' the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring! - Laertes, Act V, Scene I