Quotes Act (iv) (b) Flashcards
But I cannot
Ophelia
but i cannot choose to weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground
Poor Ophelia
Claudius
Poor Ophelia divided from her herself and her fair judgement,
without which we are as pictures, or mere beasts
O thou
Laertes
O thou vile King, Give me my father
There’s such divinity
Claudius
there’s such divinity doth hedge a King,
That treason can but peep to what it would, acts little of his will
To hell
Laertes
To hell, allegiance! Vows to to the blackest devil!
Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation!
O rose of May!
O rose of May!
Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!
O heavens! Is’t possible a young maids wits should be as mortal as an old man’s life?
And where the offence
Claudius
And where the offence is, let the great axe fall
She’s so conjunctive
Claudius
She’s so conjunctive to my life and soul,
That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her
The great love
Claudius
The great love the general gender bear him
And so I have a noble
Laertes
And so I have a noble father lost; a sister driven into desperate terms, whose worth if praises may go back again, stood challenger on mount of all the age For her perfections
You must not think (Claudius)
You must not think that we are made of stuff so flat and dull that we can let our beard be shook with danger and think it pastime
And for his death (Claudius)
And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe but even his mother shall uncharged the practice and call it accident
