hamlet quotes (all)

Question 1

A little more than kin, and less than kind…Not so, my lord, I am too much i’ the sun.

Answer 1

Hamlet

Question 2

Frailty, thy name is woman!

Answer 2

Hamlet

Question 3

This above all — to thine own self be true;
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Answer 3

Polonius

Question 4

My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.

Answer 4

Horatio

Question 5

I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.
The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Answer 5

Hamlet

Question 6

All is not well; I doubt some foul play

Answer 6

Hamlet

Question 7

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.

Answer 7

Hamlet

Question 8

A custom more honored in the breach than the observance

Answer 8

Hamlet

Question 9

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Answer 9

Hamlet

Question 10

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Answer 10

Marcellus

Question 11

The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

Answer 11

Hamlet

Question 12

brevity is the soul of wit,

Answer 12

Polonius

Question 13

More matter, with less art.

Answer 13

Gertrude

Question 14

(Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t)
How pregnant sometimes his replies are

Answer 14

Polonius

Question 15

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Answer 15

Claudius

Question 16

To be, or not to be, that is the question—
…aye, there’s the rub
Conscience does make cowards of us all,

Answer 16

Hamlet

Question 17

Benedict Arnold

Answer 17

Guildenstern and Rosencrantz

Question 18

Denmark’s a prison.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Answer 18

Hamlet

Question 19

There is a kind of confession in your looks

Answer 19

Hamlet

Question 20

What a piece of work is a man! (piece of sh__ England early 1713)

Answer 20

Hamlet

Question 21

The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.

Answer 21

Hamlet

Question 22

Get thee to a nunnery

Answer 22

Hamlet

Question 23

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Answer 23

Gertrude

Question 24

What, frighted with false fire?
Why, let the stricken deer go weep,

Answer 24

Hamlet

Question 25

Will you play upon this pipe? It is as easy as lying.
‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

Answer 25

Hamlet

Question 26

(My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.)

Answer 26

Claudius

Question 27

(I will speak daggers to her, but use none.)

Answer 27

Hamlet

Question 28

I must be cruel only to be kind.
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Answer 28

Hamlet

Question 29

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king,
and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
…a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

Answer 29

Hamlet

Question 30

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

Answer 30

Claudius

Question 31

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

Answer 31

Hamlet

Question 32

Revenge should have no bounds.
That we would do, we should do when we would.

Answer 32

Claudius

Question 33

To know a man well were to know himself.

Answer 33

Hamlet

Question 34

We defy augury.

Answer 34

Hamlet

Question 35

If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now;
if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

Answer 35

Hamlet

Question 36

The rest is silence

Answer 36

Hamlet

Question 37

Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Answer 37

Horatio