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Hamlet Quotes

  1. A hit, a very palpable hit
  2. A king of infinite space
  3. Alas, poor Yorick
  4. Antic disposition
  5. Caviar to the general
  6. Cruel to be kind
  7. Flaming youth
  8. Frailty, thy name is woman
  9. Get thee to a nunnery
  10. Hoist with his own petard
  11. Hold a mirror up to nature
  12. How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
  13. In my heart of hearts
  14. In my mind's eye
  15. Make mad the guilty, and appall the free
  16. Method in the madness
  17. More honored in the breach
  18. More in sorrow than in anger
  19. More than kin and less than kind
  20. Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
  21. O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
  22. One may smile, and smile, and be a villain
  23. Sweets to the sweet
  24. That within which passes show
  25. The lady doth protest too much
  26. The play's the thing
  27. The time is out of joint
  28. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
  29. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow
  30. They did make love to this employment
  31. Thinking too precisely on the event
  32. Thrift, thrift, Horatio
  33. To be, or not to be
  34. To sleep, perchance to dream
  35. Trippingly on the tongue
  36. What a piece of work is a man

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