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)
