Act 1 Flashcards
“young Fortinbras … **
… / Of unimproved mettle hot and full.” ~ Horatio **
“How is it …
… that the clouds still hang on you?” ~ Claudius
“our dear brother’s death … **
… / our most valiant brother.” ~ Claudius **
“If it be, / Why seems it so particular with thee?” ~ Gertrude **
“Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not ‘seems’” ~ Hamlet **
“these indeed seem, … **
… / For they are actions that a man might play” ~ Hamlet **
“‘tis unmanly grief; … **
… / It show a will most incorrect to heaven,” ~ Hamlet **
“‘tis an unweeded garden, … **
… That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely.” ~ Hamlet **
“But two months dead: … **
… nay, not so much, not two” ~ Hamlet **
“Frailty, … **
… thy name is woman!” ~ Hamlet **
“Like Niobe, … **
… all tears” ~ Hamlet **
“O God! … **
… a beast, that wants discourse of reason, / Would have mourn’d longer.” ~ Hamlet **
“My father’s brother, … **
… but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules.” ~ Hamlet **
“O, most wicked speed, … **
… to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” **
“Be thou familiar, …
… but by no means vulgar.” ~ Polonius (to Laertes)
“Tender yourself …
… more dearly.” ~ Polonius (to Ophelia)
