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Ghost: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

For it is, as the air, invulnerable,— H. i. 1.

And our vain blows malicious mockery. Angels, and ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.— H. i. 4.

But, soft: behold! lo where it comes again! I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use a voice,— H. i. J

Speak to me. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we, fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? Say, why is this?— H. i. 4.

My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself.— H. i. 5.

O, answer me: Let me not burst in ignorance! but tell, Why thy canoniz'd bones, hears'd in death, Have burst their cerements! why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd. Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws, To cast thee up again.— H. i. 4

Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too, - If charnel-houses, and our graves, must send Those that we bury, back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.— M. iii. 4.

The ghost of Cæsar hath appear'd to me Two several times by night: at Sardis, once; And, this last night, here in Philippi fields. I know, my hour is come.— J.C. v. 5.