Speakers of Quotations Flashcards
Who says, “Thou art a scholar”?
Marcellus to Horatio
Who says, “Let us impart what we have seen unto Hamlet”?
Horatio to Bernardo & Marcellus
Who says, “I have that which passeth show; these, but the trappings and the suits of woe”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “Perhaps he loves you now … his will is not his own”?
Laertes to Ophelia
Who says, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend”?
Polonius to Laertes
Who says, “They clepe us drunkards and it takes from our achievement”?
Hamlet
Who says, “I do not know, my lord, what I should think”?
Ophelia to Polonius
Who says, “The dram of evil doth all the noble substance of a doubt to his own scandal”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?
Marcellus to Horatio
Who says, “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown”?
Ghost of King Hamlet to Hamlet
Who says, “My lord, that would dishonor him”?
Reynaldo to Polonius
Who says, “I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house”?
Ghost of King Hamlet to Hamlet
Who says, “Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth”?
Polonius to Reynaldo
Who says, “As I was sewing in my chamber, Lord Hamlet … to speak of horrors, he comes before me”?
Ophelia to Polonius
Who says, “Your visitation shall receive such thanks as fits a king’s remembrance”?
Gertrude to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Who says, “I have found the very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy”?
Polonius to Claudius & Gertrude
Who says, “I doubt it is no other than the main: his father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage”?
Gertrude to Claudius
Who says, “O, Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou”?
Hamlet to Polonius
Who says, “Why, then your ambition makes [Denmark a prison]”?
Rosencrantz to Hamlet
Who says, “After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live”?
Hamlet to Polonius
Who says, “I should have fatted all the region kites with this slave’s offal”?
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “The spirit I have seen may be the devil and, perhaps, out of my weakness and my melancholy abuses me to damn me”?
Hamlet
Who says, “A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye”?
Horatio to Bernardo
Who says, “The cock that it the trumpet to the morn”?
Horatio to Bernardo & Marcellus
Who says, “Not so… I am too much i’ the sun”?
Hamlet to Claudius
Who says, “A little more than kin and less than kind”?
Hamlet [aside]
Who says, “‘tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed”?
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “The funeral bakes meats did coldly furnish the marriage tables”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “Till then sit still, my soul, Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes”?
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor, hold it a fashion”?
Laertes to Ophelia
Who says, “Do not… show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, whilst, treads and recks not his own rede”?
Ophelia to Laertes
Who says, “Give every man thine ear but few thy voice”?
Polonius to Laertes
Who says, “‘Tis in my memory lock’d and you yourself shall keep the key of it”?
Ophelia to Laertes
Who says, “Ay, springes to catch woodcocks”?
Polonius to Ophelia
Who says, “Do not believe his vows… they are brokers, not which their investments show”?
Polonius to Ophelia
Who says, “Haste me to know’t; that I with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge”?
Hamlet to the Ghost of King Hamlet
Who says, “So lust… will sate itself in a celestial bed and prey on garbage”?
Ghost of King Hamlet to Hamlet
Who says, “While memory holds a seat in this distracted globe”?
Hamlet to the Ghost of King Hamlet
Who says, “These are but wild and whirling words, my lord”?
Horatio to Hamlet
Who says, “The time is out of joint; O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right”?
Hamlet to Horatio & Marcellus
Who says, “I do think, or else this brain of mine hunts not the trail of policy so sure as it hath used to do, I have found the cause of his lunacy”?
Polonius to Claudius & Gertrude
Who says, “Since brevity is the soul of wit and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief”?
Polonius to Claudius & Gertrude
Who says, “More matter, with less art”?
Gertrude to Polonius
Who says, “What have you… deserved at the hands of Fortune that she sends you to prison hither”?
Hamlet to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Who says, “What a piece of work is a man! The paragon of animals”?
Hamlet to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Who says, “Those that would make mowes at him while my father lived, give twenty, forty, a hundred ducats a piece, for his picture in little”?
Hamlet to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Who says, “Buz, Buz”?
Hamlet to Polonius
Who says, “He would drown the stage with tears”?
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “I… must like a whore unpack my heart with words and fall a cursing”?
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “‘Tis too much proved that with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself”?
Polonius to Claudius & Ophelia
Who says, “How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience”?
Claudius (soliloquy)
Who says, “I have remembrances of yours that I have longed to redeliver… their perfume lost, takes these again; for to the noble mind rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind”?
Ophelia to Hamlet
Who says, “Get thee to a nunnery… we are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us”?
Hamlet to Ophelia
Who says, “If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny”?
Hamlet to Ophelia
Who says, “God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another… and make your wantonness your ignorance”?
Hamlet to Ophelia
Who says, “O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! The courtiers, soldier’s, scholars eye, tongue, sword… like sweet bells jangled out of tune”?
Ophelia (soliloquy)
Who says, “Blasted with ecstasy: O woe is me”?
Ophelia (soliloquy)
Who says, “Why should the poor be flatter’d? No, let the candies tongue lick absurd pomp… where thrift may follow fawning”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “Here is metal more attractive”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fears grow great, great love grows there”?
Queen Actor to the Court
Who says, “Such love must needs be treason in my breast; in second husband let me be accursed!”?
Queen Actor to King Actor
Who says, “Why, let the stricken deer go weep the hart ungalled play for some watch, while some must sleep so runs the world away”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “You do freely bar the door of your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend”?
Rosencrantz to Hamlet
Who says, “Do you think I am easier to be played upon than a pipe? … though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me”?
Hamlet to Rosecrantz & Guildenstern
Who says, “‘Tis now the very witching time of night when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world; now I could drink hot blood”?
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “O, heart, lose not thy nature… let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none”?
Hamlet (soliloquy)
Who says, “The cease of majesty dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw what’s near with it… never did a king sigh, but with a general groan”?
Rosencrantz to Claudius
Who says, “In the corrupted currents of this world offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice”?
Claudius (soliloquy)
Who says, “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; and now I’ll do’t; and so he goes to heaven; and so am I revenged”?
Hamlet [aside]
Who says, “Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent”?
Hamlet [aside]
Who says, “How now! A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!”?
Hamlet to Polonius
Who says, “O, what a rash and bloody deed”?
Gertrude to Hamlet
Who says, “A bloody deed, almost as bad… as kill a king, and marry with his brother”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “Thou wretched, rash intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better; take thy fortune; thou find’st to be busy in some danger”?
Hamlet to Polonius
Who says, “Makes marriage vows as false as dicers’ oaths”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed and batten on this moor”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “These words like daggers enter in my ears”?
Gertrude to Hamlet
Who says, “Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience”!
Gertrude to Hamlet
Who says, “Do not spread the compost on the weeds to make them ranker?”
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “Thou has cleft my heart is twain”?
Gertrude to Hamlet
Who says, “I must be cruel only to be kind; thus bad begins, and worse remains behind”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “There’s letters sealed: and my two schoolfellows, whom I will trust as adders fange’d, they bear the mandate”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “For ‘tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petar”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “This counsellor is now most still, most secret, and most grave, who was in life a foolish prating knave”?
Hamlet to Gertrude
Who says, “Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend which is the mightier: in his lawless fit… he whips his rapier out and… kills the unseen good old man”?
Gertrude to Claudius
Who says, “It had been so with us had we been there”?
Claudius to Gertrude
Who says, “A knavish speech sleep in a foolish ear”?
Hamlet to Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
Who says, “Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved or not at all”?
Claudius [aside]
Who says, “My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother”?
Hamlet to Claudius
Who says, “Do it, England. For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me”?
Claudius [aside]
Who says, “From me greet the Danish king; tell him, that by his licence [he] claims conveyance of a promised march over his kingdom”?
Fortinbras to the Captain
Who says, “We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name”?
The Captain to Hamlet
Who says, “She is importune, indeed, distract”?
Horatio to Gertrude
Who says, “She may strew dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds”?
Horatio to Gertrude
Who says, “He is dead and gone, lady, he is dead and gone; at his head a grass-green turf, at his heels a stone”?
Ophelia to Gertrude
Who says, “My brother shall know of it, and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach”?
Ophelia to Gertrude
Who says, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in batallias”?
Claudius to Gertrude
Who says, “That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard”?
Laertes to Claudius
Who says, “It’s writ in your revenge that swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe”?
Claudius to Laertes
Who says, “Is’t possible that a young maid’s wits should be as mortal as as old man’s life”?
Laertes to Claudius
Who says, “Where the offence is let the great axe fall”?
Claudius to Laertes
Who says, “She is so conjunctive to my life and soul that, as a star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but her”?
Claudius to Laertes
Who says, “For his death no wind of blame shall breathe, but even his mother shall uncharge the practice and call it accident”?
Claudius to Laertes
Who says, “To cut his throat i’ the church”?
Laertes to Claudius
Who says, “I’ll touch my point with this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, it may be death”?
Laertes to Claudius
Who says, “One woe doth tread upon another’s heel”?
Gertrude to Laertes
Who says, “Nature her custom holds… when these are gone, the woman will be out”?
Laertes to Gertrude
Who says, “If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o’ Christian burial”?
Gravedigger two to gravedigger one
Who says, “Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness”?
Horatio to Hamlet
Who says, “You lie out on’t, sir, and therefore ‘tis not yours; for my part, I do not lie in’t and yet it is mine”?
Gravedigger one to Hamlet
Who says, “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him… a fellow of infinite jest”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “Lay her i’ the earth; and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring! … a ministering angel shall my sister be when thou liest howling”?
Laertes to the Priest
Who says, “I thought thy bride-bed to have deck’d sweet maid, and not t’ have strew’d thy grave”?
Gertrude to Ophelia
Who says, “Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”?
Hamlet to Laertes
Who says, “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “They are mot near my conscience; their defeat by their own insinuation grow”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “His purse is empty; his golden words are spent”?
Horatio to Hamlet
Who says, “There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “I have shot mine arrow o’er the house and hurt my brother”?
Hamlet to Laertes
Who says, “In the cup an union shall he throw, richer than that which four successive kings in Denmark’s crown have worn
Claudius to the Court
Who says, “As a woodcock to mine own springe… I am justly kill’d”
Laertes to Osric
Who says, “No medicine in the world can do thee good… the king, the king’s to blame”?
Laertes to Hamlet
Who says, “Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother”?
Hamlet to Claudius
Who says, “This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest”?
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “I am more an antique Roman than a Dane”?
Horatio to Hamlet
Who says, “I do prophesy the election lights on Fortinbras; he has my dying voice”
Hamlet to Horatio
Who says, “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”?
Horatio to Hamlet
Who says, “Let four captains bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage; for he was likely had he been put on to have proved most royally”
Fortinbras to Horatio
