Hamlet quotes Act 3-5 Flashcards
The harlot’s cheek, beautified with plastering art,/ Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it/ Than is my deed to my most painted word/: O heavy burden (3.1.55)
King
To be, or not to be: that is the question (3.1.65)
Hamlet
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. (3.1.90)
Hamlet
Get thee to a nunnery (3.1.130)
Hamlet
O, woe is me,/ T’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see! (3.1.174)
Ophelia
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go (3.1.200)
King (Claudius)
For thou hast been/ As one suffering all that suffers nothing . . . Give me that man/ that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core” (3.2.70)
Hamlet
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (3.2.250)
Queen
“Let me be cruel, not unnatural;/ I will speak daggers to her, but use none” (3.2.425)
Hamlet
“O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,/ A brother’s murder” (3.3.40)
King
“Forgive me my foul murder”?/ That cannot be,since I am still possess’d/ Of those effects for which I did the murder,/
My crown, mine own ambition and my queen” (3.3.55)
King
“These words like daggers enter in my ears” (3.4.108)
Queen
“O, step between her and her fighting soul” (3.4.129)
Ghost
“Confess yourself to heaven;/ Repent what’s past, avoid what is to come,/ And do not spread the compost on the weeds” (3.4.170)
Hamlet
“He whips his rapier out and cries, ‘A rat! A rat!/ And in his brainish apprehension kills/ The unseen good old man” (4.1.10)
Queen