Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
Telling Ophelia where to go
“Get thee to a nunnery”
Insulting women in front of Gertrude
“Frailty, thy name is Woman”
Hamlet’s state of mind - no pleasure
“weary, stale, flat and unprofitable”
Laertes revenge
“But my revenge will come”
Fortinbras desctiption
“delicate and tender prince”
Hamlet missing Old Hamlet
“I a noble father lost”
Hamlet’s views on Gertrude and Claudius’ relationship
“incestuous sheets”
Ophelia’s obedience
“I will obey my lord”
Hamlet’s love for Ophelia. Or not…
“i did love you once”… “i loved you not”
“tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed…
…things rank and gross in nature”
“This bodes some…
…strange eruption to our state”
“Though yet of Hamlet…
…our dear brother’s death”
- Claudius, Appearance vs Reality
“A little more…
…than kin, and less than kind”
“Ay that incestous,…
…that adulterate beast”
“Smiling…
…damned villain”
“The funeral baked meats…
…did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables”
“Give thy thoughts…
…no tongue”
- Polonius, controlling
“Something is rotten…
…in the state of Denmark”
“So art thou…
…to revenge”
- OH to H
“The serpent that did sting thy father’s life…
…now wears his crown”
“To put…
…an antic disposition on”
“I did repel…
…his letters”
“The very cause of…
…Hamlet’s lunacy”
“I have a daughter - …
…have while she is mine”
“I have of late… lost all my mirth…
…forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition”
“O what a…
…rogue and peasant slave am I!”
“The play’s the thing…
…wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”
“Oh, ‘tis too true”
Claudius admitting to murder
“it were better my mother…
…had not borne me”
“Go to, I’ll no more on’t,…
…it hath made me mad”
- H about Ophelia
“It would cost you a groaning…
…to take off mine edge”
- H to O, requires sex with her to heal him
“Oh my offence is…
…rank, it smells to heaven”
“My stronger guilt defeats…
…my strong intent”
“Forgive me my…
…foul murder”
“Mother, you have my father…
…much offended”
“Thou wretched, rash,…
…intruding fool, farewell”
- H after killing P
“Blasting his…
…wholesome brother”
“In the rank sweat…
…of an enseamed bed”
“These words like…
…daggers enter in my ears”
“It is not madness…
…that I have uttered”
“But we will ship…
…him hence”
“My son if full of…
…discord and dismay”
“We go to gain a little patch of ground…
…that hath in it no profit but the name”
“How all occasions do inform against me…
…and spur my dull revenge”
“Of thinking too…
…precisely on th’event”
“The imminent death of…
…twenty thousand men”
“My thoughts be…
bloody or be nothing worth”
“Revenge should have…
…no bounds”
- Claudius, comp to H
“A sword unbated… requite…
…him for your father”
“Why, as a woodcock to mine…
…own springe”
- Laertes, scheming has backfired
“He is justly…
…served”
- Laertes, King dies
“The rest is…
…silence”
'’If thou didst ever thy dear…
…father love . . . revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’’
“Give her good watch,…
…I pray you”
- Claudius about Ophelia
“O, heavy…
…deed!”
- C on P’s death
“It had been so with us,…
…had we been there”
- C unconcerned that G could’ve been in danger
“To show yourself in deed…
…your father’s son”
- C to L
“Witchcraft of…
…his wit”
Ophelia praising Hamlet
“Nobel mind”
“Unmatched form”
Ophelia says she is most “deject and…
…wretched” because she trusted “his music vows”
Ophelia believes Hamlet’s abuse of her and Polonius is down to madness
“Heavenly powers” “restore him”
Ophelia hurt that Hamlet saying “I loved you not”
“I was the more deceived”
Ophelia reason for death
“Incapable of her own distress”
Church questioning Ophelia’s death
“Her death was doubtful”
“shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown at her”
Polonius claims Ophelia spending time with Hamlet will danger her…
…“honour”
Laetes lectures Ophelia about her losing her…
…“Chaste treasure”
“I am but mad…
…north-northwest”
