Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
“There’s fennel for you, and columbines.–There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me, we may call it “herb of grace” o’ Sunday’s.– oh, you must wear your eye with a difference.– there’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died”
- said by Ophelia
- 187-192
- said to Laretes
“Why, as a wood okay to mine own springs, Osric. I am justly killed with mine own treachery.”
- said by Laertes
- lines 315-315
- said to Osric
“Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
- said by Horatio
- 366-369
- said to the audience in an aside
“Let my disclaiming form a purposes evil/free me so far in your most generous thoughts/ that I have shot mine arrow i’er the house/ and hurt my brother.”
- said by Hamlet
- 249-243
- said to Laertes
“Madness in great ones must not u watched go”
- said by Claudius
- 31 line 194
- said to Polonius
“The lady doth protest too much methinks”
- said by Gertrude
- 32 21
- said by Hamlet (w/ Claudius present)
“Thrift, thrift Horatio! The funeral baked meats/ Did oldly furnish forth the marriage tables./ Would I had met my dearest for in heaven/Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio.
- said by Hamlet
- lines 179-182
- said to Horatio
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be;/ For loan oft loses both itself and friend/ and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
- said by Polonius
- lines 76-78
- said to Laertes and Ophelia
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bone me on his back a thousand times.”
- said by Hamlet
- lines 170-173
- said to Gravedigger
“O! My offense is rank. It smells to heaven/It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,/ a brother’s murder.”
- said by Claudius
- line 37
- said to the audience in an aside
