Quotes
Quote 1: "'the dreaded sight twice seen of us....'" Act 1, Scene 1, line 23
Quote 2: "'This bodes some strange eruption to our state.'" Act 1, Scene 1, line 68
Quote 3: "'A little more than kin and less than kind.'" Act 1, Scene 2, line 65
Quote 4: "'O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, O God,
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!'" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 129-134
Quote 5: "'frailty, thy name is woman!'" Act 1, Scene 2, line 146
Quote 6: "'The funeral baked meats / Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables....'" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 179-180
Quote 7: "'My father's spirit in arms! All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come.
Till then, sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.'" Act 1, Scene 2, lines 254-257
Quote 8: "'Give every man thy ear but few thy voice....Neither a borrower nor a lender be....This above all - to thine own self be true....'" Act 1, Scene 3, lines 68-78
Quote 9: "'Angels and ministers of grace defend us!'" Act 1, Scene 4, line 20
Quote 10: "'The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown.'" Act 1, Scene 5, lines 39-40
Quote 11: "'More matter with less art.'" Act 2, Scene 2, line 97
Quote 12: "'Words, words, words.'" Act 2, Scene 2, line 192
Quote 13: "'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.'" Act 2, Scene 2, lines 203-204
Quote 14: "'The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.'" Act 2, Scene 2, lines 581-582
Quote 15: "'To be, or not to be; that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep -
No more, and by sleep to say we end
the heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to - 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause.'" Act 3, Scene 1, lines 58-70
Quote 16: "'Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?'" Act 3, Scene 1, lines 122-123
Quote 17: "'Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.'" Act 3, Scene 2, lines 341-354
Quote 18: "'Let me be cruel, not unnatural. / I will speak daggers to her, but use none.'" Act 3, Scene 2, lines 365-366
Quote 19: "'My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. / Words without thoughts never to heaven go.'" Act 3, Scene 3, lines 97-98
Quote 20: "'O, from this time forth / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!'" Act 4, Scene 4, lines 95-96
Quote 21: "'Her clothes spread wide, / And mermaid-like a while they bore her up;....But long it could not be / Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, / Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay / To muddy death.'" Act 4, Scene 7, lines 146-154
Quote 22: "'Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio - a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy....'" Act 5, Scene 1, lines 172-173
Quote 23: "'A hit, a very palpable hit.'" Act 5, Scene 2, line 223
Quote 24: "'And let me speak to th' yet unknowing world
How these things came about. So shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause;
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' heads. All this can I
Truly deliver.'" Act 5, Scene 2, lines 323-329
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