The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (389 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [166]
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1
I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 14
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [20]
To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [25]
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]
hamlet
: No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i' the world.
king
: What do you call the play?
hamlet
: The Mouse-trap.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [247]
Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [256]
Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The hart ungallèd play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep:
So runs the world away.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [287].
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.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [387]
Very like a whale.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [406]
They fool me to the top of my bent.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [408]
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [413]
Now might I do it pat, now he is praying.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 73
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 97
How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 23
Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
I took thee for thy better.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 31
A king of shreds and patches.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 102.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 178
Hoist with his own petar.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 207
I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.
Hamlet
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 212
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliances are relieved,
Or not at all.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9.
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge!
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [23]
He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf;
At his heels a stone.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [29]
Come, my coach! Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [72]
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [123]
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [174]
There's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O! you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [179]
And where the offence is let the great axe fall.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [218]
There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167
There with fantastic garlands did she come,
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 169
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.
Hamlet
(1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 173
Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]
Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [235]
A ministering angel shall my sister be,
When thou liest howling.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [263].
Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10
Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]
A hit, a very palpable hit.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [295]
Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;
I am justly killed with my own treachery.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [320]
This fell sergeant, death,
Is swift in his arrest.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [350]
I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [355]
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [361]
The rest is silence.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [372]
Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
Hamlet
(1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [385]
175
Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [28]
The rusty curb of old father antick, the law.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [68]
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. 175
By heaven methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. 201
Go hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters!
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [49]
It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [104]
Falstaff sweats to death
And lards the lean earth as he walks along.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [119]
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [11]
Nay that's past praying for.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [214]
That roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [504]
Banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack and banish all the world.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [533]
O monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [598]
glendower
: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
hotspur
: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [53]
Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [233]
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 28
I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [125]
Thou owest God a death.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [126].
What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday.
Henry IV, Part 1
(1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. [136]