Hamlet - Quotes Flashcards
Hamlet expresses his extreme grief
But I have that within which passes show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe
Hamlet comments on his relationship with Claudius A1S2
A little more than kin, and less than kind
Hamlet’s first soliloquy - expresses desire to die
O! That this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew
Hamlet comments on marriage of Claudius and Gertrude
O! Most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good
The funeral bak’d meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables
Concerns for Denmark are evident after the ghost’s appearance
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Ghosts message to Hamlet
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder
Hamlet curses his fate to seek revenge
O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
Ophelia’s harrowing description of hamlet’s physical appearance
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac’d; no hat upon his head
And with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors
He seemed to find his way without his eyes
Claudius & Gertrude description of hamlet’s madness
C: hamlet’s transformation
G: my too much changed son
Polonius questions Hamlet’s madness
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t
Hamlet reveals his ‘occasional’ madness
I am mad but north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw
Hamlet’s plan to kill the King
The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King
Hamlet is revealed as an existential thinker
To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
Hamlet’s hateful comment to Ophelia
Get thee to a nunnery
Breeder of sinners
Ophelia mourns her relationship with Hamlet
O! Woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see
The King expresses his fear over what hamlet’s madness could mean for him
Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go
Hamlet commits to taking action now he has proof
Now l could drink hot blood, and do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on
Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none (about Gertrude)
From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth
Hamlet to Polonius after he murders him
Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool
Hamlet acknowledges his sanity to Gertrude
That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft
It is not madness that I have utter’d
Claudius explains his plan to kill Hamlet
By letters conjuring to that effect, the present death of Hamlet. Do it, England; for like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me
In a soliloquy, Hamlet tries to motivate himself, he doesn’t understand his procrastination as he has ample motive
How stand I then, that have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d, excitements of my reason and my blood, and let all sleep
O! From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
Death of Ophelia
As one incapable of her own distress
Her death was doubtful (-Priest at funeral)
Hamlet’s statement before killing Claudius
He that hath kill’d my king and whor’d my mother
Hamlet acknowledges his madness as the reason for his fatal actions
Who does it then? His madness
His madness is poor hamlet’s enemy
The opening question
Who’s there?
- Bernardo
Hamlet promises to act with haste when carrying out his revenge
With wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love
Hamlet’s obsessive introspection thwarts his revenge plans
Thinking too precisely on th’ event
Am I a coward?
(Hamlet asks himself)
Hamlet acknowledges the ghost is not a reliable source
The spirit that I have seen may be a devil
After the play, Hamlet prepares to act
From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth
Hamlet justifies not killing Claudius during the Prayer Scene
That his soul may be as damn and black as hell whereto it goes
The logical reasons why Hamlet should kill Claudius
He that hath kill’d my king and whor’d my mother
Hamlet seizes his chance at revenge in the final scene
Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink of this potion
Hamlet admits his selective madness
I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft
(To Gertrude)
I am but mad north-north-west
(To R&G)
Gertrude is seen as dependent on old hamlet
She would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on
Hamlets general criticism of women
God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another
Hamlets advice to Ophelia (Nunnery Scene)
Get thee to a nunnery
Why wouls’t thou be a breeder of sinners?
Marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them
Laertes at Ophelia’s graveside
From her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring
Rose of May
