Hamlets

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.

Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
That would not let me sleep.

The rest, is silence.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.