Famous Lines Flashcards
Who said “Shakespeare is not of an age but of all time”?
Why do you need to know it?
Ben Johnson - Shakespeare’s rival in literary genius in the time.
He’s universal
Who says “A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
Hamlet - his first opening lines revealing his appetite and doesn’t like his uncle
Who says “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt”
Hamlet - it reveals his mindset, suicidal, depressed
Who says ““Frailty, thy name is woman!—”
Hamlet in reference to his mother remarrying so quickly
Who says “Neither a borrower nor a lender be;”
Polonius in his speech to laertes - don’t do it because chances are you lose both thing you lone and your friend
Who says ““This above all: to thine ownself be true,”
Polonius - in his speech to laertes before he goes away
Who said “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
Marcellus - showing a bad omen, when he was talking about hamlet chasing his father’s ghost
Who says “Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit”
Polonius said the quote - for quiz know the whole quote it’s ironic that Polonius said this one
Who said “More matter, with less art”
Queen Gertrude to Polonius similar meaning to brevity is the soul of wit
Who said “Words, words, words.”
Hamlet - in response to Polonius questioning what he’s reading
Who says “What a piece of work is a man”
Hamlet after he learns about rose crank and guildenstern
Who said “the play ‘s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
Hamlet when he’s planning on testing the st uncle
Who says “ay, there’s the rub”
Hamlet in to be or not to be. It means there’s the catch
Who says “ay, there’s the rub”
Hamlet in to be or not to be. It means there’s the catch
Who says “Get thee to a nunnery”
Why? What does it mean?
To Ophelia essentially then you can’t make more people like you. Hamlet says this
