Hamlet Quotes

Question 1

1:1 Horatio about King hamlet

Answer 1

…valiant Hamlet

Question 2

1:2 Hamlet aside about Claudius

Answer 2

A little more kin, and less than kind

Question 3

1:2 Hamlet about Claudius and Gertrudes relationship

Answer 3

…incestuous sheets

Question 4

1:3 Polonius to Ophelia about Hamlet

Answer 4

Do not believe his vows

Question 5

1:4 Marcellus about ghost

Answer 5

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Question 6

1:5 Ghost about Claudius

Answer 6

that incestuous, that adulterate beast

Question 7

2:2 Polonius to Claudius ironic comment

Answer 7

…brevity is the soul of wit

Question 8

2:2 Hamlets comment about himself

Answer 8

a coward … pigeon-livered

Question 9

2:2 Hamlets plan to catch Claudius

Answer 9

… the play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king

Question 10

3:1 Hamlet pondering suicide

Answer 10

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Question 11

3:1 Hamlet insulting Ophelia

Answer 11

Get thee to a nunnery:

Question 12

3:2 Hamlet on how he will deal with his mother

Answer 12

I will speak daggers to her but use none

Question 13

3:3 Claudius’ confession

Answer 13

Oh, my offence is rank

Question 14

3:3 Claudius about praying and intention

Answer 14

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

Question 15

3:4 Hamlet telling his mother about the murder

Answer 15

A bloody deed. Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king and marry his brother.

Question 16

4:3 Claudius about sending hamlet to England

Answer 16

The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England

Question 17

4:7 Gertrude to Laertes, Ophelias death

Answer 17

Fell in the weeping brook… Drowned, drowned

Question 18

5:1 Hamlet about his love for Ophelia

Answer 18

I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum

Question 19

5:2 Hamlet confesses his guilt to Laertes

Answer 19

Give me your pardon, sir, I’ve done you wrong

Question 20

5:2 Claudius to Gertrude trying to stop her drinking

Answer 20

Gertrude, do not drink!

Question 21

5:2 Laertes to Osric dying words

Answer 21

I am justly killed with mine own treachery

Question 22

5:2 Gertrude to Hamlet dying words

Answer 22

… O my dear Hamlet! I am poisoned

Question 23

5:2 Hamlet to Horatio final words

Answer 23

… the rest is silence.

Question 24

5:2 Horatio about Hamlet

Answer 24

… Good night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

Question 25

5:2 Fortinbras to Horatio

Answer 25

Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage