ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come