The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Indeed this counsellor
Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
Who was in life a foolish prating knave.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 213
He keeps them, like an ape doth nuts, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last
swallowed.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [19]
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliances are relieved,
Or not at all.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9
A certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for
diet.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [21]
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’ (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]
We go to gain a little patch of ground,
That hath in it no profit but the name.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 18
How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unused.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 32
Some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the event.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 40
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour’s at the stake.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53
How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,