hamlet quotes

cold - 1.1

tis bitter cold and i am sick at heart

eruption - 1.1

the ghost 'bodes some strange eruption to our state'

unweeded - 1.3

,,an unweeded garden,, that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature

rise - 1.2

foul deeds will rise,, though all the earth o'erwhelm them to mens eyes

foul - 1.5

“Murder most foul…strange and unnatural”

serpent- 1.5

That serpent that did sting thy father’s life,, Now wears his crown.”

rank - 3.3 (claudius)

“O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven/ It hath the primal curse upon’t”

mother- 3.4

Mother, for love of grace,,, Repent what’s past…,,And do not spread the compost on the weeds,,, To make them ranker.

tread- 4.7

one woe doth tread upon anothers heel,, so fast they follow (laertes)

disease- 4.3

Diseases desperate grown,, By desperate appliance are relieved.

rotten- 2.5

something is rotten in the state of denmark - marcellus

sparrow - 5.2 (end)

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

treachery - 5.2

i am justly killed with mine own treachery - laertes

fall of a sparrow- 5.2

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

spokes… rosencrantz- 3.3

[Majesty]… is a massy wheel,, Fixed on the summit of the highest mount,,, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things,, Are mortised and adjoined, which when it falls…[attend] the boist’rous ruin.

strumpet- 2.2

“[The private] parts of Fortune? O, most true, she is a strumpet

fret- 3.2

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

scourge - 3.4

heaven hath pleased it so,,, To punish me with this, and this with me,,, That I must be their scourge and minister.

comeddled 3.2

blest are those,, Whose blood and judgement are so well comeddled,, That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger,, To sound what stop she please

engineer- 3.4

For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard - hamlet about his plan to kill ros and guild

livery - 2.5

the stamp of one defect,, being natures livery or fortune's star

mole, o'ergrowth- 2.5

vicious mole of nature…wherein [he] is not guilty…the o’ergrowth of some complexion…breaking down the pales and forts of reason - about how drinking will lead the court to seem corrupt

dram,,noble - 2.5

And this “dram of evil” will pollute “the noble substance how one negative personality trait will overwhelm a persons whole character

unnatural… upshot- 5.2

So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause; And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall’n on th’inventors’ heads

shrunk- 1.1

the morning cock crew loud,,, And at the sound it shrunk away

sovereign- 2.2

Horatio recognises that it could cause Hamlet to lose his mind: “might deprive you of your sovereign reason,, And draw you into madness

abuses.. - 2.2

The spirit that I have seen,, May be a devil, and … Abuses me to damn me

vs claudius - hercules- 1.3

My father’s brother, but no more like my father,, Than I to Hercules

to claudius- classic

Hyperion to satyr- 1.2

adjectives used throughout to describe old hamlet

fair, warlike, majesty, valiant (act 2)

mildewed- 3.4

a mildeweed ear blasting his wholesome brother

mars - 3.4

An eye like Mars, to threaten and command

pride - 1,1 + context

pricked on by most emulate pride (How olds hamlets greatness angered fortinbras)

dirge- 1.2

With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole.

flattery - about polonius (native to the heart) 1.2

The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.

dane- 1.2

you cannot speak of reason to the dane,, and lose your voice

hamlet first line

a little more than kin and less than kind (1.2)

shreds- 1.4

a king of shreds and patches

swaggering - 1.4

Keeps wassail, and the swagg’ring up-spring reels,,…as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down.”

moor- 3.4

have you eyes?/ could you on this fair mountain leave to feed/ and batten on this moor

dust- 1.2 (gertrude)

Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust:

appetite- 1.2

why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on (and yet)

woman- 1.2

frailty thy name is woman!

niobe.. beast- 1.2

Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she-- O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer

incestous sheets

to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

meats - 1.2

the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

hamlet about speaking to the ghost - 1.2

I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape/ And bid me hold my peace

purgatory ref- 1.4

Doom'd …. to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.

witchcraft- by ghost 1.4

with witchcraft of his with with traitorous gifts, that have the power/ so to seduce (gertrude)

about lust - celestial

So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, Will sate itself in a celestial bed,

antic- 1.4

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on

harlot… painted 3.1

The harlot’s cheek… Is not more ugly…. Than is my deed to my most painted word.

unwatched 3.1

madness in great ones must not unwatched go

hatch.. 3.1 and context

theres something in his soul… and i do doubt the hatch and the disclose,, will be some danger claudius' unease about hamlets madness

bloody 4.1 + context

Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answered?,, It will be laid to us.” (Ivi16) Devises a plan “so haply slander…may miss our name claudius plotting to kill hamlet in england

hugger-muger 4.5 and meaning

we have done but greenly,, in hugger-mugger to inter polonius - inter - to bury

buzzers 4.5

[Laertes] wants not buzzers to infect his ear,, With pestilent speeches of his father’s death::

direct… 4.5

judge if by direct or by collateral hand'

axe.. 5.2

where the offense is let the great axe fall

heart.. 5.2

you must put me in your heart for friend

accident 4.7

even his mother shall uncharge the practice and call it accident

ripe.. 4.7 + context

i will work him,, to an exploit now ripe in my device + claudius to laertes about killing hamlet

possessed… 3.3

Forgive me my foul murder’?,, That cannot be, since I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder -,, My crown, mine own ambition and my queen

limed… 3.3

oh limed soul, that struggling to be free,, art more engaged

limed soul meaning

compares his soul to a bird stuck in bird lime, the more you struggle the harder it is to escape

polonius… 1.3

a foolish figure

assistant… 2.2

Sees himself as “assistant for a state

carp.. 2.1

your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth

arras… 2.2

ill loose my daughter to him,, be you and i behind an arras then,, mark the encounter

israel,,,, 2.2

oh jephthah, judge of israel

tender… 1.3 + context

Tender yourself more dearly,, Or… you’ll tender me a fool - to ophelia

slander - 1.3

I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth, Have you so slander any moment leisure… than to talk to hamlet

insinuation.. 5.2

they did make love to this employment/ their defeat does by their own insinuation grow

honeying… 3.4

In the rank sweat of an enseaméd bed,\ Stewed in curruption, honeying and making love,, Over the nasty sty

rose… blister- 3.4

Such an act…takes off the rose,, From the fair forehead of an innocent love,,, And sets a blister there.”

inmost… 3.4

You go not till I set you up a glass,, Where you may see the inmost part of you.”

ambition… 2.2 +who

your ambition (makes the world a prison) tis too narrow for your mind rosencrantz to hamlet

nutshell. 2.2 +who

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 - hamlet

melancholy… 3.1 + who

There’s something in his soul,, O’er which his melancholy sits on claudius

unpregnant .. 2.2

i/ unpregnant of my cause can say nothing

ecstacy… 2.1

this is the very ecstacy of love polonius talking of the madness he thinks hamlet has been driven to by love

seeming… 1.5

my most seeming virtous queen old hamlet

(paintings) face 3.1 - and who

(i have heard of your paintings well enough). God hath given you one face and you make yourself another to ophelia

rhapsody… 3.4 + context

O such a deed… and sweet religion makes,, A rhapsody of words hamlet describing gertrudes sin to her

doubt… letter 2.2

doubt truth to be a liar,, but never doubt i love

trifling… 1.3 +who

laertes assesment of halmet as a lover as 'the trifling of his favour… a fashion and a toy in blood'

wings… 1.5

i with wings as swift / as meditation or the thoughts of love/ may sweep to my revenge

quartered… 4.4

thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward'

freeze…. 1.5

the descriptions i have of purgatory would… 'freeze thy young blood,, make thy two eyes like stars, start from their spheres'

fat weed… 1,5

duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed,, that roots itelf in ease on lethe warf,, wouldst thou not stir in this

purpose… 3.2

purpose is but the slave to memory,, of violent birth but poor validity

monstrous… 2.2 (players)

“Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit,,…. And all for nothing

fust… 4.4

“[God] gave us not,, That capability and godlike reason,, To fust in us unused

whore.. 2.2

prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, ,, [I] like a whore unpack by heart with words

quarrel… 4.4.

“greatly to find quarrel in a straw,, When honour’s at the stake.' to be great is to be extra sensitive about ones honour

delicate… 4.4

witnes this army of such mass and charge.. led by a delicate and tender prince

hamlet about the army - 4.4 beds

That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds

sallied

o that this too sallied flesh would melt

vapors 2.2 ,

this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congretation of vapors.”

to be or not to be 3.1

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.