hamlet kye quotations

act 1 scene 1 bernardo

‘Who’s there?’

act 1 scene 2 hamlet

‘A little more than kin and less than kind.’

act 1 scene 2 hamlet

‘Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not “seems.”

act 1 scene 2 hamlet

‘O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.’

act 1 scene 2 hamlet

‘Frailty, thy name is woman!’

act 1 scene 2 hamlet

‘Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.’

act 1 scene 3 polonius

‘This above all—to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.’

act 1 scene 4 marcellus

‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’

act 1 scene 5 hamlet

‘O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!’

act 1 scene 5 hamlet

‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

act 2 scene 2 polonius

‘Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.’

act 2 scene 2 hamlet

‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

act 2 scene 2 hamlet

‘O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.’

act 2 scene 2 hamlet

‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?’

act 2 scene 2 hamlet

‘The play’s the thing, Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’

act 3 scene 1 hamlet

‘To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them.’

act 3 scene 1 hamlet

‘Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me…’

act 3 scene 3 hamlet

‘Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery… ’Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.’

act 3 scene 3 claudius

‘My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.’

act 4 scene 3 claudius

 What dost thou mean by this?

act 4 scene 3 hamlet

“Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.”

act 5 scene 1 hamlet

‘Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio—a fellow of infinite jest… Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?’

act 5 scene 2 hamlet

‘We defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.’

act 5 scene 2 horatio

‘Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’