Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet
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Hamlet: Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

line from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Rosencrantz: He does confess he feels himself distracted;
But from what cause he will by no means speak.

line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet
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Rosencrantz: What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
Hamlet: Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.

lines from the play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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King Claudius: Laertes, was your father dear to you?
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
A face without a heart?

line from the play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 7, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare in Hamlet
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Rosencrantz: Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
Hamlet: Ay, sir, that soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities.

lines from the play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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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.

lines from the play Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: If he do blench,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil, and the devil hath power
T' assume a pleasing shape.

line from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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