Hamlet Quotes Flashcards

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HAMLET: Denmark’s a…

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HAMLET: Denmark’s a prison

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CLAUDIUS: O my offence…

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CLAUDIUS: O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

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CLAUDIUS: with mirth in…

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CLAUDIUS: with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage

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HAMLET: Frailty…

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HAMLET: Frailty, thy name is woman

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MARCELLUS: Something is…

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MARCELLUS: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

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THE GHOST: One may…

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THE GHOST: One may smile, and smile, and still be a villain

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HAMLET: What’s Hecuba…

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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)

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HAMLET: Get thee…

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HAMLET: Get thee to a nunnery- why thou be a breeder of sinners?

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HAMLET: I will speak…

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HAMLET: I will speak daggers to her but use none

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CLAUDIUS: Oh my offence is rank… pray

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CLAUDIUS: Oh my offence is rank… pray can I not

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HAMLET: From this time…

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HAMLET: From this time forth my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth

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HAMLET: Alexander died…

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HAMLET: Alexander died, Alexander was burned, Alexander returned to dust, dust is Earth

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GERTRUDE: All that lives…

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GERTRUDE: All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity

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LAERTES: His greatness weighed…

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LAERTES: His greatness weighed, his will is not his own, for he is a subject to his birth

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HAMLET: My fate

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HAMLET: My fate cries out

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16
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GHOST: The serpent that…

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GHOST: The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears the crown

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HAMLET: The spirit that i have seen…

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HAMLET: The spirit that I have seen may be the devil… and perhaps, out of my weakness… abuses me to damn me

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HAMLET: Conscience…

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HAMLET: Conscience does make cowards of us all

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HAMLET: This is I…

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HAMLET: This is I, Hamlet the Dane