Hamlet quotes from play

Hamlet’s aside in response to Claudius 1.2.

A little more than kin, and less than kind

the ghost questioning Hamlet’s paternal love, 1.5

if thou didst ever thy dear father love

What Hamet calls Polonius in 2.2 (Sea)

y’are a fishmonger

What Polonius ironically calls his speech to Laertes, 1.3

these few precepts

Polonius ironic advice to Laertes, 1.3

give thy thoughts no tongue/ nor any unproportioned thought his act

Polonius stutter in 2.1

What was I about to say?… Where did I leave?

Hamlet being vulgar about fortune, 2.2

In the secret parts of fortune? Oh most true, she is a strumpet.

Hamlet calls Polonius, 2.2, biblical

old Jeptha

Hamlet talking about Fortune, 3.1

whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ or to take arms against a sea of troubles

Hamlet questioning the reason Claudius is angry, 3.2.

with drink sir?

Claudius talking about his inability to pray, 3.3.

words without thoughts never to heaven go

Claudius talking about celebration in Denmark, 1.2

no jocund health that Denmark drinks today

gravedigger response to Hamlet’s questions, 5.1

one that was a woman sir, but rest her soul she’s dead

the gravedigger talking about England, 5.1

there the men are as mad as he

Hamlet calls Claudius, 3.4

the bloat king

Claudius describing the death of O.H., repeated, 1.2

our dear brother’s death

Claudius on loss, 1.2

your father lost a father, that father lost, lost his

Gertrude on death, 1.2

all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity

Claudius on Hamlet’s grief, 1.2

in obstinate condolement is a course/ of impious stubbornness, ‘tis unmanly grief

Claudius hubristic celebrations in Denmark, 1.2.

the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,/ and the king’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again

the ghost on the state he was killed in, 1.5

cut off even in the blossoms of my sin/ unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled

where Polonius was when he died, 3.3

behind the arras I’ll convey myself/ to hear the process

claudius following Hamlet killing Polonius, 4.1

his liberty is full of threats to all/ to you yourself, to us, to everyone

the question Claudius asks Gertrude about Hamlet, 4.1

where is he gone?

How Claudius addresses Ophelia in 4.5

pretty lady, pretty Ophelia

Ophelia madness, 4.5 (blame)

young men will do’t if the come to’t-/ by Cock, they are to blame

Hamlet describing Yorrick, 5.1

a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy, he hath borne me on his back a thousand times

Gertrude narrating what Ophelia died with, 4.7

Therewith fantastic garlands did she make/ of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples

description ofOphelia in the water, 4.7

her clothes spread wide/ and mermaid-like awhile they bore her up

Hamlet describing his grief,, 5.1

whose phrase of sorrow/ conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand/ like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,/ Hamlet the Dane.

Laertes response to Hamlet’s declaration of grief, 5.1

the devil take thy soul

Hamlet’s clothes as the melancholic, 1.2.

my inky cloak… suits of solemn black

Hamlet desire for escape, 1.3(dew)

O that this too solid flesh would melt/ thaw and resolve itself into a dew/ or that the Everlasting had not fixed his cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter.

mad Ophelia talking about dead father

I cannot choose but weep think they would lay him i’th’cold ground

Hamlet talking about his inability to act, 2.2

Am I a coward?… I am pigeon livered and lack gall

Hamlet talking about how he doesn’t really love Ophelia, 3.1

I never gave you aught… I loved you not

Ophelia singing about a man,4.5

before you tumbled me/ you promised me to wed

Polonius ridiculing Ophelia, 1.3

you speak like a green girl… think yourself a baby

Hamlet questioning the ghost, 2.2

the spirit I have seen/ may be a devil

Claudius questioning Laertes paternal love, 4.7

Laertes, was your father dear to you? Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

Hamlet and then Pyrrhus speech, 2.2

‘strumpet Fortune’

Pyrrhus as bloody, 2.2

now he is total gules, horridly tricked with blood… o’ersized with coagulate gore

Hamlet angry and vengeful, 3.2

I could drink hot blood

Hamlet angry and vengeful, 4.4

My thoughts be bloody or nothing worth

Claudius/Laertes conversation on revenge for Polonius, 4.7

C: what would you undertake/ to show yourself in deed your father’s son/ more than in words? L: to cut his throat in the church

Claudius making one foil sharper, 4.7

a little shuffling

Laertes intending to poison his foil

‘anoint my sword’ with ‘an unction of mountebank’

Hamlet apologising to Laertes, 5.2

give me your pardon sir, I’ve done you wrong

Laertes talking about his own death, 5.2

I am justly killed with mine own treachery

Laertes asking Hamlet to forgive him, 5.2

exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet

Laertes potentially attempting to end revenge plot, 5.2

this is too heavy, let me see another

How Old Hamlet and Old Norway’s combat ends, 1.1

in a ‘sealed compact/ well ratified by law and heraldry’

Hamlet talking about Polonius, 3.1

let the doors be shut on him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in’s own house

Hamlet telling Ophelia how she will be affected by Polonius, 3.1

be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny

what is calumny

malicious lies

what Polonius says he’ll do to catch Hamlet, 2.2

I’ll loose my daughter to him

what Claudius says Hamlet will do under his command, 3.1

He shall with speed to England

what Rosencrantz and Guildenstern did on their way to Elsinore, 2.2.

coted… the players… on the way

Hamlet describing how he will ensure Claudius is guilty, 2.2

the play’s the thing/ wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king

what the ambassador comes to tell Claudius (but is too late), 5.2

his commandment is fulfilled, that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

the state Hamlet believes Claudius to be in when he first intends to kill him, 3.3

to take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage?

Horatio planning to commit suicide, end of play

Here’s yet some liquor left

Hamlet complimenting Horatio, 3.2

Horatio, thou art e’en as just a man/ as e’er my conversation coped withal

Horatio and Hamlet interaction, 1.2

Hor: your poor servant ever Ham: Sir, my good friend, I’ll change that name with you

Horatio talking about the ghost, 1.1

tush tush, ‘twill not appear

Ophelia knowledge, first to Polonius then to Hamlet

‘I do not know my lord what I should think’ ‘I know nothing my lord’

5.2 Gertrude disobey Polonius

‘Gertrude do not drink!’ ‘I will my lord, I pray you pardon me’

Polonius mindlessly agreeing with Hamlet

3.2 ‘tis like a camel indeed… it is backed like a weasel… very like a whale'

Osric mindlessly agreeing with Hamlet

it is very hot… it is indifferent cold… it is very sultry

Hamlet talking about his desires for Claudius

that his heels may kick at Heaven, and that his soul may be damned and black as hell

horatio talking about hamlet at the end

now cracks a noble heart/ goodnight sweet prince

hamlet describing R + G’s mindless servility and sycophancy

sponges who soak up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities

hamlet describing R and G to be killed

they ‘hold their course for england’ and ‘they are not near my conscience’

ghost of Old Hamlet describing Gertrude

seeming virtuous queen

G describing R + G to claudius and gertrude

we both obey and here give ourselves in the full bent… to be commanded’

Hamlet describing Gertrude’s crime

as bad as to ‘kill a king and marry with his brother’

Hamlet describing the speed with which Gertrude moved on

with such dexterity to incestuous sheets

Polonius on Hamlet’s madness (method)

though this be madness yet there is method in it

Polonius effeminising Hamlet’s madness

how pregnant sometimes his replies are

Hamlet sexual allusions with Ophelia

country matters… that’s a fair thought to lie between a maiden’s legs

Ophelia mourning Polonius

I cannot choose but weep to think they would lay him i’th’cold ground

Hamlet self loathing at effeminacy and cowardice

unpregnant of my cause… who calls me a villain, breaks my pate across, plucks my beard and blows it in my face

Ophelia imploring everyone to listen to her songs

nay, pray you mark

Hamlet descrubung Gertrude and Claudius’ bed

the rank sweat of an inseamed bed

Hamlet telling Getrude what to do

‘refrain’ and maintain ‘abstinence’ from Claudius’ ‘temptations’

Laertes on Ophelia’s virginity

thou chaste treasure

2 words to describe the proceedings of O’s funeral

maimed rights

what Hamlet says to Claudius directly after Gertrude dies

thou incestous, murderous, damned Dane… follow my mother

what Gertrude tells Hamlet to do in his melancholy

cast thy nighted colour off