| GREAT quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet |
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| Act 1 | |||||||||||||||
| "My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules" - Hamlet "Neither a borrower nor a lender be;" "This above all: to thy own self be true, And it must follow, ,as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." "Speak, I am bound to hear" |
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| Act 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most beautified Ophelia- Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt thou the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But noever doubt I love.' "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." "For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." "I am mad north-northwest. When the wind is south-erly I know a hawk from a handsaw." |
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| Act 3 | |||||||||||||||
| "To be or not to be, that is the question;" "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come" "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind." "Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out," |
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| Act 4 | |||||||||||||||
| King: "Where is Polonius?" Hamlet: "In heaven. Send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, sek him i' the other place yourself. But indeed, if you find him not with in this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby." "Lord, we know what we are, but not what we may be." "When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, But in Battallions!" |
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| Act 5 | |||||||||||||||
| grave digger #1: "How long will a man lie i' the earth aer he rot?" grave digger #2: "If he be not rotten before he die (as we have many pocky corpses now-a-days that will scarce hold the laying in), he will last you some eight year or nine year." |
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