The Character of Hamlet Quotes Flashcards
“So excellent a king…
SELF-ABSORBED
“So excellent a king that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyre; so loving to my mother”
“Get thee to a …
SELF-ABSORBED
“Get thee to a nunnery. Why woulds’t thou be a breeder of sinners?”
“I’ll lug the guts..
SELF-ABSORBED
“I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room”
“Thus conscience…
INTROSPECTIVE
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all”
“…with wings as…
COMPELLING
“… with wings as swift
As meditation or thoughts of love,
May sweep to my revenge”
“O that this too..
COMPELLING
“O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew”
“I will obey..
HONOURABLE
“I will obey thee mother”
“Good night, but go…
HONOURABLE
“Good night, but go not to mine uncle’s bed.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not”
“I’ve done…
HONOURABLE
“I’ve done you wrong”
“report me…
HONOURABLE
“report me and my cause aright”
“I loved Ophelia…
SENSITIVE
“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum”
“I have that w…
SENSITIVE
“I have that within which passeth show”
“I do not se…
RECKLESS
“I do not set my life at a pin’s fee”
“Dead for a d…
RECKLESS
“Dead for a ducat, dead!”
“devised a new…”
RECKLESS
“devised a new commission”
“I, Hamlet th…
RECKLESS
“I, Hamlet the Dane”
“r… and b… deed”
RECKLESS
“rash and bloody deed”
“O cursed…
“O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right”
“I never gave you…
CRUEL
“I never gave you ought”
“You go not t…
CRUEL
“You go not till I have set you up a glass
Where you may see the inmost part of you”
“proved m…
LOYAL
“proved most royal”
“mother, you h…
LOYAL
“mother, you have my father much offended”
“the general …
LOYAL
“the general gender bear him”
“go not to …
ERUDITE
“go not to Wittenberg”
“They are the ab…
ERUDITE
“They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time”
