Hamlet: You, as your business and desire shall point you;
For every man has business and desire,
Such as it is; and for my own poor part,
Look you, I’ll go pray.
line from the play Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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King Claudius: That we would do,
We should do when we would, for this "would" changes
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents.
line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 7 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Though inclination be as sharp as will, my stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, and, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, and both neglect.
William Shakespeare in Hamlet
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Horatio: In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
line from the play Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:
Be you and I behind an arras then;
Mark the encounter: if he love her not
And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,
Let me be no assistant for a state,
But keep a farm and carters.
lines from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet [to Polonius]: Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: For anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
lines from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Polonius: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.
line from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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