There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
England expects that every man will do his duty.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
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