Hamlet Flashcards
1.1 Quotes
“Such was the very armour he had on / When the ambitious Norway combated”
“This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
“Young Fortinbras, / Of unimproved mettle hot and full”
1.2 Quotes
“The memory be green”
“Our sometime sister, now our Queen, / The imperial jointress to this warlike state.”
“My dread lord, / Your leave and favour to return to France.”
“Have you your father’s leave?”
“But now my cousin Hamlet, and my son.”
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”
“Thou know’st tis common, all that lives must die.”
“Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, nor customary suits of solemn black.”
“Tis unmanly grief”
1.2 Soliloquy Quotes
“O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.”
“Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon gainst self-slaughter.”
“How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable”
“Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature.”
“Hyperion to a satyr”
“Frailty, thy name is woman.”
“A beast… would have mourned longer”
1.3 Quotes
(Polonius family talk)
“Or your chaste treasure open”
“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
“Give me up the truth”
“Pooh, you speak like a green girl”
“You’ll tender me a fool.”
“I shall obey, my lord”
1.4 Quotes
(Hamlet and Horatio meet ghost)
“They clepe us drunkards”
“Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell.”
“I’ll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane”
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
1.5 Quotes
(Hamlet with Ghost)
“Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away.”
“If thou didst ever thy dear father love… revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”
“with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge.”
“The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.”
“That incestuous, that adulterate beast.”
“There’s never a villain dwelling in all Denmark… there needs no ghost… to tell us this.”
“[Beneath] Swear.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
“O cursed spite, that I was born to set it right”
2.1 Quotes
(Ophelia talks about Hamlet’s madness)
“He took me by the wrist”
“This is the very ecstasy of love”
2.2 Quotes
(Polonius and royal family plan against Hamlet)
“His father’s death, and our o’erhasty marriage.”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
“To the celestial and my soul’s idol, the most beautified Ophelia.”
“I’ll loose my daughter to him”
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.”
“What a piece of work is a man”
“They are the abstract and brief chronicles of time”
2.2 Soliloquy Quotes
O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba.
O vengeance! Why, what an ass am I.
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words.
They play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
3.1 Quotes
(To be soliloquy and Ophelia interaction)
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
The dread of something after death, the undiscovered country.
Conscience does make cowards of us all
I did love you once
Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.
3.2 Quotes
(The mousetrap)
To hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature.
I think nothing, my lord.
That’s a fair thought to lie between maid’s legs.
Tis brief, my lord.
As woman’s love.
Give me some light - away!
Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?
Now could I drink hot blood
Let me be cruel, not unnatural, I will speak daggers to her
3.3 Quotes
(Claudius prays and Hamlet doesn’t kill him)
O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven
It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, a brother’s murder.
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow.
Now might I do it pat, now he is praying.
3.4 Quotes
(Incesty scene/ Polonius death)
How now! A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead.
A bloody deed, almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king, and marry with his brother.
For at your age, the hey-day in the blood is tame.
It is not madness that I have uttered
4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 Quotes
“Kills the unseen good old man”
“His very madness… shows itself pure; a weeps for what is done.”
“The imminent death of twenty thousand men… go to their graves like beds”
“From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.”
4.5 Quotes
(Mad Ophelia and pissed off Laertes)
Before you tumbled me, you promised me to wed
This is the poison of deep grief
To hell allegiance, vows to the blackest devil
There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me (repentance)
