The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,
A ministering angel shall my sister be,
When thou liest howling.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [260]
Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]
I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid,
And not have strewed thy grave.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [267]
I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]
This grave shall have a living monument.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [319]
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10
I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair, and laboured much
How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
It did me yeoman’s service.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 33
But thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [222]
Not a whit, we defy augury; there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]
I have shot mine arrow o’er the house,
And hurt my brother.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [257]
Now the king drinks to Hamlet!
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [292]
A hit, a very palpable hit.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [295]
Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;
I am justly killed with my own treachery.
‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [320]
The point envenomed too!—