Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
“Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death / The memory be green, and than it us befitted / To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom / To be contracted in one brow of woe / Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature / That we with wisest sorrow think on him / Together with remembrance of ourselves.”
Claudius
“Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not ‘seems’”
Hamlet
“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 cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter!”
Hamlet
“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.”
Plonious
“I am thy father’s spirit / Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night / And for the day confined to fast in fires / Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature / Are burnt and purged away.”
Hamlet Sr.
“there are more things in heaven and earth, Horation / Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”
Hamlet
“…for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Hamlet
“what a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and 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? Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.”
Hamlet
“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
Hamlet
“This is most brave / That I, the son of a dear father murder’d / Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell / Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words / And fall a- cursing, like a very drab / A scullion!”
Hamlet
“…the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.”
Hamlet
“O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! / The courtier’s, soldier’s scholar’s eye, tongue, sword / The expectancy and rose of the fair state / The class of fashion and the mold of form? The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! / … / Now see that noble and most sovereign reason / … / Blasted with ecstasy…”
Ophellia
“Give me that man / That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him / In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart / As I do thee.”
Hamlet
“Pray can I not / Though inclination be as sharp as will / My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent / And like a man to double business bound / I sand in pause where I shale first begin / And both neglect.”
Claudius
“O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul / And there I see such black and grained spots / As will not leave their tinct. O’ speak to me no more; these words like daggers, enter mine ears; no more, sweet Hamlet!”
Gertrude
