| “Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier.” | Queen |
| “But, like the owner of a foul disease, to keep it from divulging, let it feed even on the pith of life.” | King |
| “He weeps for what is done” | Queen |
| “But we must with all our majesty and skill both countenance and excuse.” | King |
| “Take you me for a sponge, my lord?” | Ros./Guild |
| “Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved or not at all.” | King |
| “Your worm is your only emperor for diet.” | Hamlet |
| “For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me” | King |
| “Tell him that by his license Fortinbras craves the conveyance of a promised march over his kingdom.” | Fortinbras |
| “We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name” | Captain |
| “Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats will not debate the question of this straw.” | Hamlet |
| “What is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?” | Hamlet |
| “Her speech is nothing, yet the unshaped use of it doth move the hearers to collection” | Gentleman |
| “Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.” | Horatio |
| “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be spilt” | Queen |
| “Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be” | Ophelia |
| “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” | King |
| “O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!” | Queen |
| “That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard” | Laertes |
| “There’s such divinity doth hedge a king that treason can but peep to what it would.” | King |
| “To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation. To this point I stand” | Laertes |
| “This nothing’s more than matter.” | Laertes |
| “And of all Christians’ souls, I pray God. God be wi’ you” | Ophelia |
| “And where th’ offense is, let the great ax fall” | King |
| “That, as the star moves but in his sphere, I could not but by her” | King |
| “Is the great love the general gender bear him, who, dipping all his faults in their affection” | King |
| “That I shall live and tell him to his teeth ‘Thus didst thou.'” | Laertes |
| “But even his mother shall uncharge the practice and call it accident” | King |
| “That we would do we should do when we would; for this ‘would’ changes” | King |
| “To cut his throat i’ th’ church” | Laertes |
| “Revenge should have no bounds” | King |
| “He, being remiss, most generous” | King |
| “I’ll touch my point with this contagion, that, if I gall his slightly, it may be death” | Laertes |
| “I’ll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce” | King |
| “There is a willow grows askant the brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream” | Queen |
| “Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia” | Laertes |
Act 4 Hamlet Quotes
July 1, 2019