The Character of Hamlet Quotes Flashcards

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“So excellent a king…

SELF-ABSORBED

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“So excellent a king that was, to this,

Hyperion to a satyre; so loving to my mother”

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“Get thee to a …

SELF-ABSORBED

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“Get thee to a nunnery. Why woulds’t thou be a breeder of sinners?”

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“I’ll lug the guts..

SELF-ABSORBED

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“I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room”

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“Thus conscience…

INTROSPECTIVE

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“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all”

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“…with wings as…

COMPELLING

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“… with wings as swift
As meditation or thoughts of love,
May sweep to my revenge”

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“O that this too..

COMPELLING

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“O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew”

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“I will obey..

HONOURABLE

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“I will obey thee mother”

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“Good night, but go…

HONOURABLE

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“Good night, but go not to mine uncle’s bed.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not”

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9
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“I’ve done…

HONOURABLE

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“I’ve done you wrong”

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“report me…

HONOURABLE

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“report me and my cause aright”

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“I loved Ophelia…

SENSITIVE

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“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum”

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“I have that w…

SENSITIVE

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“I have that within which passeth show”

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“I do not se…

RECKLESS

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“I do not set my life at a pin’s fee”

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“Dead for a d…

RECKLESS

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“Dead for a ducat, dead!”

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“devised a new…”

RECKLESS

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“devised a new commission”

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16
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“I, Hamlet th…

RECKLESS

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“I, Hamlet the Dane”

17
Q

“r… and b… deed”

RECKLESS

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“rash and bloody deed”

18
Q

“O cursed…

A

“O cursed spite

That ever I was born to set it right”

19
Q

“I never gave you…

CRUEL

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“I never gave you ought”

20
Q

“You go not t…

CRUEL

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“You go not till I have set you up a glass

Where you may see the inmost part of you”

21
Q

“proved m…

LOYAL

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“proved most royal”

22
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“mother, you h…

LOYAL

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“mother, you have my father much offended”

23
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“the general …

LOYAL

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“the general gender bear him”

24
Q

“go not to …

ERUDITE

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“go not to Wittenberg”

25
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“They are the ab…

ERUDITE

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“They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time”