Shakespeare Quotes by Work: Hamlet
- A hit, a very palpable hit
- A king of infinite space
- A ministering anqel
- Alas, poor Yorick
- Antic disposition
- Brevity is the soul of wit
- Caviar to the general
- Cruel to be kind
- Cudgel thy brains
- Flaming youth
- Frailty, thy name is woman
- Get thee to a nunnery
- Hoist with his own petard
- Hold a mirror up to nature
- How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
- In my heart of hearts
- In my mind's eye
- It smells to heaven
- Make mad the guilty, and appall the free
- Method in the madness
- More honored in the breach
- More in sorrow than in anger
- More matter with less art
- More than kin and less than kind
- My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be
- Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
- O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
- One may smile, and smile, and be a villain
- Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
- Sweets to the sweet
- That within which passes show
- The glass of fashion
- The lady doth protest too much
- The play's the thing
- The primrose path
- The time is out of joint
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
- There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow
- They did make love to this employment
- Thinking too precisely on the event
- Thrift, thrift, Horatio
- To be, or not to be
- To sleep, perchance to dream
- To thine own self be true
- Trippingly on the tongue
- What a piece of work is a man
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