Hamlet Scene 3 Quotes

#1. This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Patricia Briggs

#2. In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. . .
(Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)

William Shakespeare

#3. The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

William Shakespeare

#4. Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.

William Shakespeare

#5. Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

William Butler Yeats

#6. Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

Samuel Rogers

#7. We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already.
Chopper Jim Chopin

Dana Stabenow

#8. It's a pity that the rich have more freedom to hang or drown themselves than the rest of us Christians.

William Shakespeare

#9. There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

Saul Friedlander