Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
Seems
HAMLET
Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not “seems.”
O, that this too, too
HAMLET
O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.
frailty, thy
HAMLET
frailty, thy name is woman.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The
HAMLET
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
This above all - to thine own
POLONIUS
This above all—to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Something is rotten
MARCELLUS
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
O, villain, villain
HAMLET
O, villain, villain, smiling, damend villain!
There are more things in heaven
HAMLET
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Therefore, since brevity is
POLONIUS
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
When ‘tis none to you; for there
HAMLET
When ‘tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
O God, I could be bounded
HAMLET
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble
HAMLET
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form, in moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
What’s Hecuba to him
HAMLET
‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
The play’s the thing
HAMLET
The play’s the thing,
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
To be or not to be - that is
HAMLET
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.
Get thee to a nunnery,
HAMLET
Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me…
Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing
HAMLET
Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. ’Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
My words fly up
KING
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
KING: What dost thou mean…
HAMLET: Nothing but to…
CLAUDIUS: What dost thou mean by this?
HAMLET: Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him
HAMLET
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio—a fellow of infinite jest… Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
We defy augury. There is a special
HAMLET
We defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is ‘t leave betimes?
Now cracks a noble
HORATIO
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’
Hyperion to
Hyperion to a satry
O most pernicious
O most pernicious woman
