Gertrude | Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is mightier. In his lawless fit,… In this brainish apprehension kills the unseen good old man |
Gertrude | O’er whom his very madness, like some ore among a mineral of metals base, shows itself pure. He weeps for what is done |
Claudius | It had been so with us, had we been there |
Claudius | The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch, but we will ship him hence: and this vile deed we must with all our majesty and skill, both countenance and excuse |
Hamlet | That I can keep your counsel and not mine own |
Hamlet | When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again |
Claudius | He’s loved of the distracted multitude |
Hamlet | Your fat King and your lean begged is but variable service |
Hamlet | A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a King and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm |
Hamlet | Seek him i’th’ other place yourself |
Claudius | For all the hectic in my blood he rages |
Hamlet | How stand I then, to have a father killed, a mother stained, excitements of my reason and my blood, and let all sleep? |
Gertrude | So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself, in fearing to be spilt |
Claudius | O this is the poison of deep grief, it springs all from her fathers death |
Claudius | The people muddied, thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers for good polonius’ death- and we have done but greenly in hugger-mugger to inter him |
Claudius | Let him go Gertrude, do not fear our person |
Laertes | Only I’ll be revenges most throughly for my father |
Claudius | Why now you speak like a good child and a true gentleman |
Claudius | That as the star moves not but in his sphere I could not but by her |
Laertes | But my revenge will come |
Claudius | Laertes you shall hear them |
Claudius | There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it |
Claudius | Revenge should have no bounds; but good alerted will you do this: keep close within your chamber? |
Claudius | He being remiss most generous, and free from all contriving, will not peruse the foils, so that, with ease, or with a little shuffling, you may choose a sword unabated, and in a pass of practice require him for your father |
Hamlet act 4 quotes
August 21, 2019