Act 1 Quotes Flashcards

1
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“Our sometimes sister,..”

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“Now our Queen”
Claudius in beginning speech

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2
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“A little more than kin,…”

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“And less than kind”
Hamlet in aside

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3
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“Seems, madam! Nay, it is;..”

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“I know not “seems””
Hamlet to Gertrude

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4
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“O, that this too too solid…”

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“Flesh would melt, that, and resolve itself into a dew”
Hamlet in his soliloquy about suicide.

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5
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“How wear, stale..”

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“,flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.”
Hamlet in his soliloquy about suicide.

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6
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“Frailty,..”

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“Thy name is woman!”
Hamlet in his soliloquy about suicide.

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7
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“But break, my heart,”

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“For I must hold my tongue.”
Hamlet in his soliloquy about suicide.

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8
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“Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral..”

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“Baked meats did coldly furnish the marriage tables”
Hamlet to Horatio

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9
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“A countenance more..”

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“In sorrow than in anger”
Horatio to Hamlet

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10
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“Give every man thy..”

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“Ear, but few thy voice; take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment”
Polonius to Laertes

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11
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“Neither a borrower nor..”

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“A lender be: from loan oft loses both itself and friend”

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12
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“To thine..”

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“Own self be true”
Polonius to Laertes

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13
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“And for my soul,”

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“What can it do to that, being a thing immortal itself?”
Hamlet to Horatio when ghost appears

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14
Q

“Something is r-“

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“Rotten in the state of Denmark”
Marcellus to Horatio

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15
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“The serpent that did”

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“Sting thy father’s life, now wears his crown”
Ghost to Hamlet

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16
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“Cut off even in”

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“The blossoms of my sin”
Ghost to hamlet

17
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“O horrible,”

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“O horrible, most horrible”
Ghost to hamlet

18
Q

“O most pernicious..”

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“Woman! O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!”
Hamlet to himself once ghost leaves.

19
Q

“There are more things in..”

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“Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
Hamlet or Horatio

20
Q

“The time is out..”

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“Of joint; O cursed spite, that ever i was born to set it right!”
Hamlet to Marcellus and Horatio