Home-School college reading list book club discussion

Hold it fashion, and a toy in blood.
A violet in the youth of primary nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute
No more.

- Laertes (Hamlet)

My hour is almost come when I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames must render up myself... Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold."
- Ghost, Hamlet

Ay, sir. To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

- Hamlet (Hamlet)

To be or not to be - that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles. And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep - no more.
- Hamlet, Hamlet

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
- Claudius, Hamlet

Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health of a goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable,

-Hamlet, Hamlet

I shall the effect of this good lesson keep as watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and recks his own rede.

- Ophelia, Hamlet