"That he is mad, tis true; tis true tis pity; And pity tis tis true: a foolish figure; But farewell it, for I will use no art."
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother.
"Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us."
Hamlet"Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
Hamlet"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each mans censure, but reserve thy judgment."
Hamlet"What art thou that usurp’st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee speak!"
Hamlet"Claudius: Where is Polonius? Hamlet: In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i the other place yourself. But, indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby."
Hamlet"Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems."
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