Quotes

Question 1

‘Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend which is the mightier’
-Act 4 Scene 1
-Gertrude to Claudius

Question 1

‘I have heard of your painting too, well enough. God has given you one face and you make yourself another’
-Act 3 Scene 1
-Hamlet to Ophelia

Question 2

‘Her clothes spread wide, and, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up…Till her garments, heavy with drink, pulled the poor wretch…to muddy death’
-Act 4 Scene 7
-Gertrude

Question 3

‘What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother’s blood, is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?
-Act 3 Scene 3
-Claudius (soliloquy)

Question 4

‘S’blood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?’
-Act 3 Scene 2
-Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Question 5

‘My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen’
-Claudius
-Act 3 Scene 3

Question 6

‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’

Question 7

‘The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown’

Question 8

‘If ever, thy dear father loved’

Question 9

‘Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole’

Question 10

‘Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned’

Question 11

‘This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose’

Question 12

‘For, by the image of my cause, I see the portraiture of his’

Question 13

‘He hath very oft of late, give private time to you’

Question 14

‘O, most wicked speed to post, with such dexterity to incestuous sheets’
-Act 1 Scene 2
-Hamlet

Question 15

‘I see such black and grained spots, as will not leave their tinct’
-Act 3 Scene 4
-Gertrude

Question 16

‘A bloody deed! - Almost as bad, good mother, As kill a king and marry with his brother’
-Act 3 Scene 4
-Hamlet to Gertrude

Question 17

‘Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes between the pass and the fell of incensed points of mighty opposites’
-Act 5 Scene 2
-Hamlet

Question 18

‘I am justly killed with mine own treachery’
-Act 5 Scene 2
-Laertes

Question 18

‘A little more than kin, and less than kind’