Hamlet - Quotes improved

“How is it that clouds still hang on you?"

“How is it that clouds still hang on you?"

Claudius asking about the state of hamlet in act 1

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

Hamlet being depressed and that

‘Frailty, thy name is woman!’

Hamlet being misogynistic

‘All is not well. I doubt some foul play’ ‘Foul deeds will rise…to men’s eyes’

Hamlet foul deeds

‘His will is not his own; for he himself is subject to his birth’

Laertes on the state of hamlet

‘My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion.’

Ophelia talking about hamlet loving her

‘You speak like a green girl.’

Polonius to Ophelia

‘I shall obey my lord’

Ophelia being ruled over

‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’

Marcellus foreshadowing

‘That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain’

Hamlet on masks

‘As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put on an antic disposition’

Hamlets antic disposition

‘If thou didst ever thy dear father love - … revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’

Ghost - Old Hamlet

‘Can you play The Murder of Gonzago?’

Hamlet asking for a play

‘I am pigeon-livered and lack gall’

Hamlet on his cowardice

‘I’ll have grounds more relative than this: the plays the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’

Hamlet on catching Claudius out

“He is justly served. It is a poison tempered by himself. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee, Nor thine on me”

Laertes exchanging forgiveness with hamlet

‘To be or not to be is the question’

Hamlet2b

‘I did love you once… I loved you not.’

Hamlet if he loved Ophelia

‘He shall with speed to England’

Claudius England

‘Let me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her, but use none.’

Hamlet speaking about speaking to his mother

‘O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.’

Claudius regret

‘Forgive me my foul murder?’

Claudius praying

‘When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.’

Hamlet procrastinating killing Claudius

‘O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.’

Hamlet gonna do something

‘My lord, I will be ruled; the rather if you could devise it so that I might be the organ.’

Laertes being used