Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
What is the Opening line of Hamlet?
Who’s There?
Horatio to King’s Ghost
He is sent to decide if the Ghost is really Hamlet Sr.
“Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee, speak”
Hamlet in an aside about Claudius.
When Claudius and Gertrude are talking to Hamlet after their wedding about his long mourning.
“A little more than kin and less than kind.”
Hamlet in his first soliloquy.
“o that this too too solid flesh would melt,That, and resolve itself into a dew”
Hamlet in soliloquy about Gertrude’s hasty remarriage.
“Frailty, thy name is women!
‘‘incestuous sheets’’
Polonius to Laertes
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be…. This above all - to thine own self be true.”
Marcellus to Horatio
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Ghost to Hamlet
During the conversation when the Ghost is having Hamlet swear to avenge his murder.
“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”
Ghost to Hamlet about Claudius
“The serpent that did sting they fathers life / Now wears his crown.”
Hamlet after the Ghost leaves and he has sworn to avenge.
“The time is out of joint! O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right.”
Polonius to King and Queen
when Polonius is telling the King and Queen the reason to Hamlet’s madness.
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
Gertrude to Polonius
“More matter with less art”
Polonius aside about Hamlet during their conversation after Polonius’ conversation with king and queen
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”
Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
“what a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties…”
Hamlet at the end of his 2nd soliloquy when he wants to be sure Claudius is guilty before he kills him.
“The play is the thing/ Wherein i’ll catch the conscience of the king”
Hamlet during his third soliloquy.
“To be or not to be; that is the question…”
Hamlet to Ophelia
“get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”
Claudius to Polonius
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
Gertrude to Hamlet
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
Hamlet to himself about his mothers after he is convince Claudius really did kill his dad.
“I will speak daggers to her, but use non.”
Claudius in his soliloquy about his brother’s death.
“O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.”
Claudius aside about his prayer after Hamlet decides he can’t kill Claudius because he is praying.
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. / Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
Hamlet to Gertrude (blush)
“O shame, where is the blush!”
Hamlet during another soliloquy before he goes back to Denmark
“O, from this time forth / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!”
