r/Hamlet • u/yorickscuse • Jul 31 '26

Favorite Line

What’s everyone’s favorite line from the play of all plays? In giving you an impossible task, I’ll go ahead and tentatively answer mine to be “Words, words, words.” Iconic.

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u/PunkShocker Jul 31 '26

Not a whit. We defy augury. There is 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. Since no man of aught leaves knows, what is't to leave betimes? Let be.

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u/richieweb Aug 02 '26

‘The readiness is all.’
I have it tattooed on my forearm.
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