Quotes - Act 2, Sc 2

Question 1

Polonius

Answer 1

I’ll loose my daughter to him

Question 2

Polonius

Answer 2

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t

Question 3

Hamlet

Answer 3

y’are a fishmonger

Question 4

Hamlet

Answer 4

Denmark’s a prison

Question 5

Hamlet

Answer 5

they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time

Question 6

Hamlet

Answer 6

what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

Question 7

Hamlet

Answer 7

unpregnant of my cause

Question 8

Hamlet

Answer 8

I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall

Question 9

Hamlet

Answer 9

like a whore, unpack my heart with words

Question 10

Hamlet

Answer 10

Abuses me to damn me

Question 11

Hamlet

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Gertrude

Answer 12

I doubt it is no other but the main, / His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.

Question 13

Hamlet

Answer 13

Words, words, words

Question 14

Hamlet

Answer 14

there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so

Question 15

Hamlet

Answer 15

this majestical roof fretted with golden fire (metadrama)

Question 16

Hamlet

Answer 16

this quintessence of dust

Question 17

Hamlet

Answer 17

that great baby you see there (of Polonius)

Question 18

Player 1

Answer 18

like a neutral to his will and matter, / Did nothing (of Pyrrhus, reflecting Hamlet)

Question 19

Player 1

Answer 19

seem’d i’ th’ air to stick (like David Tennant)

Question 20

Hamlet

Answer 20

they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time

Question 21

Hamlet

Answer 21

what an ass am I!

Question 22

Hamlet

Answer 22

The spirit that I have seen / May be the devil; and the devil hath power / T’assume a pleasing shape (David Tennant’s ghost)