Our sometime sister, now our Queen
King Claudius
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Hamlet in aside while with Claudius
Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not "seems
Hamlet to Gertrude
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.
Hamlet
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world.
Hamlet
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
- Hamlet (to himself, about Gertrude and Claudius' marriage)
- It's hurting Hamlet that he knows this about Gertrude and Claudius but he cannot say anything about it to anyone.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Hamlet
For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favours,
Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute �
No more.
King Claudius
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
And recks not his own rede.
Ophelia
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar
Polonius to Laertes
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Polonius
This above all � to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man
Polunius
Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?
Hamlet
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Marcellus
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.
Hamlet