key quotations hamlet Flashcards
Hamlet in an aside about Claudius.
When Claudius and Gertrude are talking to Hamlet after their wedding about his long mourning.
“A little more than kin and less than kind.”
Polonius to Laertes about being himself
” to thine own self be true.”
Marcellus to Horatio
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Ghost to Hamlet about the murder
“The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown.”
Hamlet, soliloquy. He feels constrained not to complain but is disgusted by their relationship.
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
Hamlet to Horatio.
hamlet says that rationality cannot explain this as supernatural increases
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
Hamlet soliloquy. Hamlet berates himself, having seen the passion of the players, for not acting on his own passionate desire for revenge.
Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I
Polonius’s spying
“give every man thy ear, but few thy voice”
Hamlet on first seeing the ghost
“bring with thee airs of heaven, or blasts from hell….i will speak to thee”
polonius on Hamlet’s madness
“though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”
hamlet to ophelia about sin
“why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners”
Ophelia on Hamlet’s madness
“blasted with ecstasy”
The ghost about Gertrude’s lies
“Seemingly virtuous queen”
Showing Claudius’s malevolence and straight forward language
“revenge should have no bounds”
The plays Hamlet
The thing
