Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
“Be wary…”
“Be wary then. Best safety lies in fear.”
-Laertes
“When the…”
“When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.”
-Polonius
“The apparel…”
“The apparel oft proclaims the man.”
-Polonius
“Give thy…”
“Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act.”
-Polonius
“Give every…”
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.”
-Polonius
“Neither a…”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
-Polonius
“This above…”
“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.”
-Polonius
“It is…”
“It is common for the younger sort to lack discretion.”
-Polonius
“Brevity is…”
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
-Polonius
“Nothing either…”
“Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
-Prince Hamlet
“What a…”
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god!”
-Prince Hamlet
“To be…”
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
-Prince Hamlet
“I must…”
“I must be cruel only to be kind.”
-Prince Hamlet
“Rich gifts…”
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
-Ophelia
“For some…”
“For some must watch while some must sleep, thus runs the world away.”
-Prince Hamlet
“For use…”
“For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
-Prince Hamlet
“Thus the…”
“Thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”
-Prince Hamlet
“There’s a…”
“There’s a design at work in all art. Surely you know that.”
“When sorrows…”
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
-Claudius
“We know…”
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
-Ophelia
“A knavish…”
“A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.”
-Prince Hamlet
“Rightly to…”
“Rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument, but greatly to find quarrel in a straw when honor’s at the stake.”
-Prince Hamlet
“Cat will…”
“Cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”
-Prince Hamlet
“Good night…”
“Good night, sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
-Horatio
