Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
Claudius : scene 2
Our sometime sister, now our queen
Hamlet: scene two
A little more than kin and less than kind.
Hamlet: I have
I have that within which passes show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Hamlet: o that this
O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Tia an unweeded garden, that grows to seed
Horatio: Scene one
It harrows me with fear and wonder.
Hamlet: sexist
Frailty ,thy name is woman!
Hamlet: end of scene two
My father’ spirit in arms! All is not well; I doubt some foul play
Laetres: tells ophelia that hamlet will leave her
His will is not his own, for he himself is subject to his birth;
Polonius: scene two
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Ophelia obeys
‘Tis in my memory lock’d
I shall obey my lord.
Horatio shows loyalty scene IV
What if it tempt you toward the flood, my Lord, and there assume some other horrible form, which might deprive your sovereignty of reason and draw you into madness?
Marcellus: end of scene IV
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Ghost: tells us he has come from hell
I am thy father’s spirit; doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confin’d to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg’d away.
Ghost asks hamlet to get revenge
If thou fiddy ever thy dear father love - revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Hamlet says he will get revenge:
Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge.
