A level English Literature Hamlet Quotes JORDAN YANG LIKES MEN

But I have that within which passes show, these but the trappings and suits of woe.

Hamlet explains his grief to his mother.

A little more than kin and less than kind.

Hamlet's first words (Addressed to Claudius)

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

First soliloquy: Flesh

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

First soliloquy: Views on the world

'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature posses it merely.

First soliloquy: Description of Denmark

Revenge is foul and most unnatural murder.

Ghost: Revenge

O villain, villain, smiling damned villain! ... That one may smile and smile and be a villain.

Description of Claudius after his crime is revealed

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Marcellus' comment on affairs

Haste me to know't, that I with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge.

Hamlet's desire for revenge

The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown.

Claudius described with animal imagery

Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest.

The royal bed of Denmark

Taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught.

Ghost's advice about Gertrude

Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.

Remember me. Ghost's last words

He is as mad as the sea and wind, when both content which is the mightier.

Gertrude's weather imagery to describe Hamlet

Yet must not we put the strong law on him: He's loved of the distracted multitude.

Why Claudius won't harm Hamlet himself

Do it, England: For like the hectic in my blood he rages and thou must cure me.

Claudius demands England to act

How all occasions do inform against me and spit my dull revenge!

Everything goes against Hamlet's plan for revenge

Now, whether it be bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event, a thought which quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward, I do not know.

Hamlet realises his own flaws

He most violent author of his own just remove.

Claudius describes Hamlet to Gertrude

Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd; His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.

Hamlet apologises to Laertes about his actions

Poor Ophelia. Divided from herself and her fair judgement, without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts.

Claudius' description of Ophelia's madness

His means of death, his obscure funeral - That I must call't in question.

Laertes questions his father's death and burial

No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarise; Revenge should have no bounds.

Claudius condemns murder

The queen his mother lives almost by his looks.

Claudius mentions Gertrude's devotion to Hamlet

I loved Ophelia: Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

Hamlet's love confessions for Ophelia

He should the bearers put to sudden death, not shriving-time allow'd.

Hamlet's letter to England regarding Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Why, man, they did make love this employment; They are not near my conscience.

Hamlet doesn't care for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

He that hath kill'd my king and whores my mother, popp'd in between the election and my hopes - Is't not perfect conscience, to quit him with this arm?

Hamlet argues the morality of his revenge

Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.

Laertes is killed by his own treachery

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.

Laertes asks for forgiveness

Now cracks a noble heart.

Horatio loses Hamlet

Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage; For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

Fortinbras honours Hamlet