Hamlet - Quotes Flashcards
‘Who’s there?’
1.1 Barnardo
‘Thou art a scholar. Speak to it Horatio.’
1.1 Marcellus
‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state.’
1.1 Horatio
‘our dear brother’s death…our hearts in grief… our whole kingdom’
1.2 Claudius
‘And we here dispatch you, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand’
1.2 Claudius
‘Take thy fair hour, Laertes’
1.2 Claudius
‘A little more than kin and less than kind’
1.2 Hamlet
‘Cast thy nighted colour off’
1.2 Gertrude
‘Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not seems’.
1.2 Hamlet
‘Tis unmanly grief’
1.2 Claudius
‘It is most retrograde to our desire…bend you to remain’
1.2 Claudius
‘I shall in my best obey you, madam.’
1.2 Hamlet
‘O that this too sullied flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew.’
1.2 Hamlet
‘How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!’
1.2 Hamlet
‘tis an unweeded garden…rank and gross in nature’
1.2 Hamlet
‘Hyperion to a satyr’
1.2 Hamlet
‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’
1.2 Hamlet
‘O most wicked speed’
1.2 Hamlet
‘incestuous sheets’
1.2 Hamlet
‘The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.’
1.2 Hamlet
‘Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister and keep you in the rear of your affection.’
1.3 Laertes
‘Best safety lies in fear.’
1.3 Laertes
‘But, good my brother, do not…show me the steep and thorny way to heaven…recks not his own rede.’
1.3 Ophelia
‘Give thy thoughts no tongue’
1.3 Polonius
‘to thine own self be true’
1.3 Polonius
‘Tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it.’
1.3 Ophelia
‘You speak like a green girl’
1.3 Polonius
‘I do not know, my lord, what I should think.’
1.3 Ophelia
‘I will teach you’
1.3 Polonius
‘I shall obey, my lord.’
1.3 Ophelia
‘Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell’
1.4 Hamlet
‘Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements.’
1.4 Hamlet
‘I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.’
1.4 Hamlet
‘What if it tempt you toward the flood, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff’
1.4 Horatio
‘You shall not go, my lord.’
1.4 Marcellus
‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.’
1.5 Ghost
‘The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.’
1.5 Ghost
‘that incestuous, that adulterate beast’
1.5 Ghost
‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest’
1.5 Ghost
‘Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her.’
1.5 Ghost
‘O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain.’
1.5 Hamlet
‘antic disposition’
1.5 Hamlet
‘to make inquire of his behaviour.’
2.1 Polonius
‘Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.’
2.1 Polonius
‘I have been so affrighted!’
2.1 Ophelia
‘As if he had been loosed out of hell’
2.1 Ophelia
‘Mad for thy love?’
2.1 Polonius
‘This is the very ecstasy of love’
2.1 Polonius
‘as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied his access to me.’
2.1 Ophelia
‘The need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending.’
2.2 Claudius
‘Hamlet’s transformation’
2.2 Claudius
‘we both obey’
2.2 Guildenstern
‘But never doubt I love…I love thee best.’
2.2 Hamlet (letter)
‘I’ll loose my daughter to him.’
2.2 Polonius
‘You are a fishmonger’
2.2 Hamlet
‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.’
2.2 Polonius
‘Denmark’s a prison’
2.2 Hamlet
‘To me it is a prison.’
2.2 Hamlet
‘Were you not sent for?’
2.2 Hamlet
‘What a rogue and peasant slave am I!’
2.2 Hamlet
‘What would he do had he the motive and cue for passion that I have?’
2.2 Hamlet
‘Like a John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause.’
2.2 Hamlet
‘I am pigeon-livered and lack gall’
2.2 Hamlet
‘Must like a whore unpack my heart with words.’
2.2 Hamlet
‘The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’
2.2 Hamlet
‘lawful espials.’
3.1 Claudius
‘To be or not to be - that is the question; whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer…or to take arms against a sea of troubles.’
3.1 Hamlet
‘I never gave you aught.’
3.1 Hamlet
‘Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.’
3.1 Hamlet
‘I did love you once.’
3.1 Hamlet
‘I loved you not.’
3.1 Hamlet
‘Get thee to a nunnery.’
3.1 Hamlet
‘O heavenly powers, restore him!’
3.1 Ophelia
‘God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.’
3.1 Hamlet
‘Let his Queen mother all alone entreat him…if she finds him not, to England send him.’
3.1 Polonius
‘Observe my uncle’
3.2 Hamlet
‘No, good mother. Here’s metal more attractive.’
3.2 Hamlet
‘Tis brief my lord’
3.2 Ophelia
‘As woman’s love.’
3.2 Hamlet
‘The king rises.’
3.2 Ophelia
‘I did very well note him.’
3.2 Horatio
‘She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed.’
3.2 Rosencrantz
‘I will speak daggers to her, but use none.’
3.2 Hamlet
‘O my offence is rank. It smells to heaven.’
3.3 Claudius
‘primal eldest curse…a brother’s murder.’
3.3 Claudius
‘My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen.’
3.3 Claudius
‘May one be pardoned and retain th’offence?’
3.3 Claudius
‘When he is drunk asleep…or in th’incestuous pleasure of his bed.’
3.3 Hamlet
‘My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.’
3.3 Claudius
‘Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.’
3.4 Gertrude
‘Mother, you have my father much offended.
3.4 Hamlet
‘How now? A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!’
3.4 Hamlet
‘O, I am slain!’
3.4 Polonius
‘Is it the king?’
3.4 Hamlet
‘A bloody deed - almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.’
3.4 Hamlet
‘What have I done that thou darest wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me?’
3.4 Gertrude
‘You cannot call it love.’
3.4 Hamlet
‘For at your age the heyday in the blood is tame’
3.4 Hamlet
‘Nay but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty’
3.4 Hamlet
‘O, speak to me no more. These words like daggers enter in mine ears.’
3.4 Gertrude
‘Alas, he is mad!’
3.4 Gertrude
‘Do not forget.’
3.4 Ghost
‘bend your eye on vacancy’
3.4 Gertrude
‘Good night. But go not to my uncle’s bed.’
3.4 Hamlet
‘Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier.’
4.1 Gertrude
‘His liberty is full of threats to all’
4.1 Claudius
‘Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain’
4.1 Claudius
‘The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body.’
4.2 Hamlet
‘Bring me to him.’
4.2 Hamlet
‘He’s loved of the distracted multitude.’
4.3 Claudius
‘We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.’
4.3 Hamlet
‘Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.’
4.3 Hamlet
‘you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.’
4.3 Hamlet
‘everything is bent for England.’
4.3 Claudius
‘By letters congruing to that effect, the present death of Hamlet.’
4.3 Claudius
‘For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me.’
4.3 Claudius
‘How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge!’
4.4 Hamlet
‘The imminent death of twenty thousand men…go to their graves like beds’
4.4 Hamlet
‘O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!.’
4.4 Hamlet
‘She speaks much of her father’
4.5 Gentlemen
‘[singing] He is dead and gone.’
4.5 Ophelia
‘this is the poison of deep grief.’
4.5 Claudius
‘poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgement’
4.5 Claudius
‘The rabble call him lord…’Laertes shall be king!’’
4.5 Messenger
‘I’ll be revenged most throughly for my father.’
4.5 Laertes
‘Tears seven times salt burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!’
4.5 Laertes
‘is it possible a young maid’s wits should be as mortal as an old man’s life?’
4.5 Laertes
‘rosemary…for remembrance…pansies…for thoughts.’
4.5 Ophelia
‘I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.’
4.5 Ophelia
‘If by direct or by collateral hand they find us touched, we will our kingdom give, our crown, our life and all that we call ours, to you in satisfaction’
4.5 Claudius
‘my revenge will come.’
4.7 Laertes
‘I am set naked on your kingdom.’
4.7 Hamlet (letter)
‘Will you be ruled by me?’
4.7 Claudius
‘I will be ruled…devise it so that I might be the organ.’
4.7 Laertes
‘To cut his throat in the church!’
4.7 Laertes
‘Revenge should have no bounds.’
4.7 Claudius
‘I’ll anoint my sword…if I gall him slightly, it may be death.’
4.7 Laertes
‘Your sister’s drowned, Laertes.’
4.7 Gertrude
‘clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke…herself fell in the weeping brook.’
4.7 Gertrude
‘Her clothes spread wide and mermaid like’
4.7 Gertrude
‘As one incapable of her own distress’
4.7 Gertrude
‘like a creature naive and indued unto that element.’
4.7 Gertrude
‘I forbid my tears.’
4.7 Laertes
