Hamlet Quotes Flashcards

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HAMLET: ‘let the candied tongue lick…..’

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‘let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning’

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HAMLET: ‘they are not a pipe for _____’

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‘they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger’

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HAMLET: ‘so excellent a king that was to this ______’

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‘so excellent a king that was to this / Hyperion to a Satyr’

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‘something is rotten in the….’

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‘something is rotten in the state of denmark’

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HAMLET: ‘denmark is a ____’

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‘denmark is a prison’

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HAMLET: ‘i could drink ____ and do bitter business as the day would _______’

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‘i could drink hot blood and do bitter business as the day would quake to look on’

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HAMLET: ‘o that this too too ______’

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‘o that this too too solid flesh would melt / thaw and resolve itself into a dew’

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HORATIO: ‘young Fortinbras,
Of _____,
Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
________,’

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‘young Fortinbras,
Of unimprovèd mettle hot and full,
Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes’

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ROZENCRANTZ: ‘The ______

Dies not alone, but, like a _____’

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‘The cease of majesty
Dies not alone, but, like a gulf, doth draw
What’s near it with it.’

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HAMLET: ‘tis an _______, / That grows to seed; things ______ in nature / Possess it merely’

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‘tis an unweeded garden, / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely’

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HAMLET: ‘o, from this time forth, be my thoughts …….’

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‘o, from this time forth, be my thoughts bloody or nothing worth!’

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HAMLET: ‘Thus conscience _______,

And thus the native hue of _______ with the pale cast of _______’

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‘Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought’

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HAMLET: ‘there’s a ________ rough-hew them how we will’

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‘there’s a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them how we will’

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HAMLET: ‘______ that is the question: wether tis nobler in the mind to _______, or to take arms against a _____, and by opposing end them?’

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‘to be or not to be: that is the question: wether 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?’

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HAMLET: ‘to die: to sleep; to sleep ______: ay there’s the ____; for in sleep of death what dreams may come’

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‘to die: to sleep; to sleep perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub; for in sleep of death what dreams may come’

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HAMLET: ‘there are more things in _______, horatio, than are dreamt of in your _____’

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‘there are more things in heaven and earth , horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’