Hamlet Quote Review

"Who's there?"

Bernardo

"This above all else: to thine own self be true,"

Polonius

"If thou art privy to thy country's fate, / Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!"

Horatio

"one may smile and smile and be a villain..."

Hamlet

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

Marcellus

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Hortaio, Than are dreamt of in your

Philosophy."

Hamlet

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it."

Polonius

"Let four captains Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,"

Fortinbras

"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

Hamlet

"A little more than kin and less than kind."

Hamlet

"Thou know'st tis common; all that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity."

Gertrude

"How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience."

Claudius

"Be wary, then; best safety lies in fear. Youth itself to rebels, though none else near."

Laertes

"Neither a borrower nor a lender (be)."

Polonius

"Murder most foul, as in the best it is, / But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."

King Hamlet's Ghost

"To be or not to be - that is the question:"

Hamlet

"And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his musicked vows,"

Ophelia

"I am more an antique Roman than a Dane. Here's yet some liquor left."

Horatio

"What is a man / If his chief good and market of his time /Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more."

Hamlet

"here's rosemary, that's for remembrance. /Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies,

that's for thoughts."

Ophelia

"Why, what a king is this!"

Horatio

"To cut his throat i'th' church"

Laertes

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio-a fellow of infinite jest / of most excellent fancy."

Hamlet

"The serpent that did sting thy father's life / Now wears his crown."

Ghost of King Hamlet

"By indirections find directions out."

Polonius

"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."

Claudius

" You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I / will more willingly part withal—except my life, except my life, except my life"

Hamlet

"yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me"

Hamlet

"Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?"

Hamlet

"Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

Horatio

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,"

Polonius

"It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages / with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with / your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent / music."

Hamlet

"Lo, here I lie, Never to rise again. Thy mother's poisoned. I can no more. The King,

the King's to blame."

Laertes

"Sweets to the sweet, farewell!"

Gertrude

"The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."

Hamlet

"I was the more deceived"

Ophelia

"O' my offense is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,"

Claudius

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to

heaven go."

Claudius

"Such a sight as this becomes the field but here shows much amiss."

Fortinbras

" The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

Gertrude

"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."

Hamlet

"Fie on't, ah fie 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely."

Hamlet

"the purpose / of playing, whose end, both at the first and /now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to / nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her / own image, and the very age and body of the time / his form and pressure."

Hamlet

"He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders Of his affection to me."

Ophelia

"Affection, pooh! You speak like a green girl"

Polonius

"How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet

To put an antic disposition on"

Hamlet

"I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

Hamlet

"Thou turn'st my eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots

As will not leave their tinct."

Gertrude

"No, no, the drink, the drink! O, my dear Hamlet! / The drink, the drink! I am poisoned."

Gertrude

"If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, / Absent thee from felicity awhile

And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain/ To tell my story."

Hamlet