Hamlet quotes Act 1-2 Flashcards
“What , has this thing appeared again tonight?” (1.1)
Speaker:Horatio To: Marcellius and Francisco
“Now, sir, young Fortinbras,/ Of unimproved mettle hot and full” (1.1.105)
Speaker:Horatio To: Marcellus
“A little more than kin, and less than kind.” (1.2)
Speaker: Hamlet To: Aside
“So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr.” (1.2.140)
Speaker: Hamlet To: Soliloquy
“Frailty, thy name is woman!”
Speaker: Hamlet To: Soliloquy
“She married:–O most wicked speed, to post/With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (1.2)
Speaker: Hamlet To: Soliloquy
“His greatness weigh’d, his will is not his own” (1.3)
Speaker: Laertes To: Ophelia
“This above all: to thine own self be true” (1.3)
Speaker: Polonius To: Laertes
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” (1.4)
Speaker: Marcellus To:Horatio
“As I perchance hereafter shall think meet/To put an antic disposition on” (1.5.190)
Speaker:Hamlet To: Horatio
“You must not put another scandal on him” (2.1.30)
Speaker: Polonius To:Reynaldo
“And here give up ourselves in the full bent/ To lay our service freely at your feet./ To be commanded” (2.2.30)
Speaker:Guildenstern To:Gertrude/claudius
“I have found/ The very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy” (2.2.50)
Speaker: Polonius To: King
“I doubt it is no other but the main;/ His father’s death, and our o’er hasty marriage” (2.2.60)
Speaker: Queen To: King
“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit” (2.2.95)
Speaker: Polonius To: King and Queen
