HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

The head is not more native to the heart.

Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.