Quotation Translations Flashcards
What… doth make the night joint-labourer with the day?
Why are people working 24/7?
A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.
The ghost situation is bothersome
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature that we with wisest sorrow… hath taken to wife.
Claudius justifies his hasty marriage to Gertrude
A little more that kin and less than kind.
Hamlet’s opening aside reveals his aversion to his uncle step-father
‘Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed.
Poor leadership ruins a country
Funeral… meats did coldly furnish… the marriage tables.
Horatio understands Hamlet’s sarcasm
His will is not his own as he… is subject to his birth.
Laertes says a prince may not choose his wife
Do not… show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst… himself… recks not his own rede.
Ophelia challenges her brother not to be a hypocrite
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice.
Although he is often a fool, this is sound advice to his son
Ay, springes to catch woodcocks… when the blood burns… the prodigal soul gives the tongue vows.
Foolish girls are seduced by young men’s passionate lies.
They clepe us drunkards.
Danes are reputed to drink too much
The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.
A ghost says his brother killed him
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
Reynaldo is to tell lies and spy on Laertes
More matter with less art.
Gertrude tells Polonius to get to the point
O Jephthah… what a treasure hadst thou!
Polonius foolishly ignores Hamlet’s warning
The spirit I have seen may be the devil.
Hamlet doubts the ghost’s veracity.
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
Hamlet considers the afterlife
Most sovereign reason… blasted with ecstasy.
Ophelia truly believes Hamlet is mad
Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
An actor’s words upset Gertrude
I will speak daggers… but use none.
Gertrude will hear painful truths
In the corrupted currents of this world, offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice.
Claudius knows he will pay for his crimes in the next world
How now! A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
Hamlet believes he has killed the king
We have done greenly in hugger-mugger to inter him.
Claudius realizes he has made a mistake
For his death no wind of blame shall breathe.
Claudius plots with Laertes
One woe doth tread upon another’s heel.
Ophelia’s death soon follows her madness
‘Tis a quick lie, sir.
A grave digger matches wits with Hamlet
Forty thousand brothers could not… make up my some.
Using a hyperbole, Hamlet professes his love for Ophelia
They are not near my conscience; their defeat does by their own insinuation grow.
Hamlet feels no remorse sending two former friends to be executed
