Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
HAMLET: Denmark’s a…
HAMLET: Denmark’s a prison
CLAUDIUS: O my offence…
CLAUDIUS: O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
CLAUDIUS: with mirth in…
CLAUDIUS: with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage
HAMLET: Frailty…
HAMLET: Frailty, thy name is woman
MARCELLUS: Something is…
MARCELLUS: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
THE GHOST: One may…
THE GHOST: One may smile, and smile, and still be a villain
HAMLET: What’s Hecuba…
HAMLET: What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her? (Meaning why can an actor feel such emotion about a character but Hamlet cannot act on his revenge)
HAMLET: Get thee…
HAMLET: Get thee to a nunnery- why thou be a breeder of sinners?
HAMLET: I will speak…
HAMLET: I will speak daggers to her but use none
CLAUDIUS: Oh my offence is rank… pray
CLAUDIUS: Oh my offence is rank… pray can I not
HAMLET: From this time…
HAMLET: From this time forth my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth
HAMLET: Alexander died…
HAMLET: Alexander died, Alexander was burned, Alexander returned to dust, dust is Earth
GERTRUDE: All that lives…
GERTRUDE: All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity
LAERTES: His greatness weighed…
LAERTES: His greatness weighed, his will is not his own, for he is a subject to his birth
HAMLET: My fate
HAMLET: My fate cries out
GHOST: The serpent that…
GHOST: The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears the crown
HAMLET: The spirit that i have seen…
HAMLET: The spirit that I have seen may be the devil… and perhaps, out of my weakness… abuses me to damn me
HAMLET: Conscience…
HAMLET: Conscience does make cowards of us all
HAMLET: This is I…
HAMLET: This is I, Hamlet the Dane
