Act I, Scene i
HORATIONow, sir, young Fortinbras,Of unimprovèd mettle hot and full,Hath in the skirts of Norway here and thereShark'd up a list of lawless resolutesFor food and diet to some enterpriseThat hath a...
Act I, Scene ii
HAMLETO, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,Or that the Everlasting had not fixedHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God,How weary, stale, flat, an...
Act I, Scene iii
POLONIUS 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. (1.3.84-86)
Act I, Scene v
HAMLET How strange or odd some'er I bear myself(As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on) (1.5.190-192)
Act II, Scene i
OPHELIAMy lord, as I was sewing in my closet,Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle,Pale as his shirt, his kn...
Act II, Scene ii
HAMLET[…] The spirit that I have seenMay be the devil, and the devil hath powerT' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,Out of my weakness and my melancholy,As he is very potent with such spi...
Act III, Scene i
HAMLETTo be or not to be—that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troublesAnd, by opposing, end t...
Act III, Scene ii
HAMLETSpeak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw...
Act III, Scene iii
HAMLETNow might I do it pat, now he is praying,And now I'll do 't. [He draws his sword.] ...
Act III, Scene iv
HAMLET How is it with you, lady? QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, how is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly p...
Act IV, Scene i
KING CLAUDIUS What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet? QUEEN GERTRUDE Mad as the sea and wind when both contend Which is the mightier. In his lawless fit, Behind the arras hearing something stir, Whips out...
Act IV, Scene iii
KING CLAUDIUSNow, Hamlet, where's Polonius?HAMLETAt supper.KING CLAUDIUSAt supper where?HAMLETNot where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him....
Act IV, Scene iv
HAMLET […] I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do,' Sith I have cause, and will and strength, and means To do 't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mas...
Act IV, Scene v
KINGFollow her close; give her good watch, I pray you. (4.5.79)
Act IV, Scene vii
CLAUDIUSHamlet comes back; what would you undertakeTo show yourself indeed your father's sonMore than in words?LAERTESTo cut his throat i' th' church.KINGNo place indeed should murder sanctuarize;R...
Act V, Scene i
FIRST CLOWNIs she to be buried in Christian burial,when she willfully seeks her own salvation?SECOND CLOWNI tell thee she is. Therefore make her gravestraight. The crowner hath sat on her and...
Act V, Scene ii
HAMLETDoes it not, think thee, stand me now upon—He that hath killed my king and whored my mother, Popp'd in between th' election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life, And with s...