Hamlet - play quotes

1.2; Hamlet’s snide remark over Claudius

‘a little more than kin and less than kind’

1.2; Hamlet’s suicide

'o that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew'

2.2; antic disposition

'I am but mad north, north-west'

2.2; Hamlet calling out Polonius hypocrisy

‘y’are a fishmonger’

2.2; Hamlet letter to Ophelia

‘most beautified Ophelia’

1.5; Hamlet as the revenger

'the time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right'

2.2; Polonius over-verbose

'tis true, tis true, tis pity and pity tis tis true'

2.2; Polonius’ plan

'I'll loose my daughter to him'

1.2; Claudius opening monologue

'For this time of meeting thus much the business is'

1.5; Hamlet view of Claudius

'O villain, villain, smiling damned villain’

3.3; Claudius regret

‘oh my offence is rank’

3.2; Hamlet view of theatre

'hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image'

2.2; Hamlet self-despisal after first player

'had he the motive and the cue for passion that I'

2.2; Hamlet’s plan

'the plays the thing in which I'll catch the conscience of the king'

3.2; moustrap hint at Gertude

'none wed the second but who killed the first'

2.2; reference to the glope

'brave overhanging firmament, this majestic roof'

4.5; Claudius manipulation of Laertes

'that I am guiltless of your father's death and most sensibly in grief for'

1.1; description of the ghost

'that fair and warlike form'

3.3; Claudius’ desire for cleanliness

'oh limed sould that struggling to be free art more engaged! Help, angels'

4.5; Laertes wish for revenge

'to hell alleigance, vows to the blackest death...only I'll be revenged most thoroughly for my father'

3.4; Hamlet’s turn to darkness

'I may be cruel only to be kind'

4.4; hamlet’s heroic villainy

'my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth’

4.3; perception of Hamlet

'how dangerous it is that this man goes loose'

1.2; Hamlet’s seperation in grief

‘Cast they nighted colour off’

3.1; Hamlet misogyny

'get thee to a nunnery'

4.5; Ophelia’s love based madness

'how should I your true love know'

4.5; Ophelia’s grief based madness

'he is dead and gone lady, he is dead and gone'

1.2; speed of marriage

'with mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage

2.2; trapping of Elsinore

‘Denmark is a prison’

3.1; Hamlet’s suicidal thoughts

‘to be or not to be that is the question’

1.3; belittling of Ophelia

'baby' 'green girl' 'I shall obey my lord'

1.2; Hamlet’s misogyny to Gertrude

‘oh most pernicious woman’/’frailty thy name is a woman’

3.4; Gertrude guilt

'there I see such black and grained spots'

1.5; Ghost in purgatory

'unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled'

1.5; Ghost’s demand

'revenge my foul and most unnatural murder'

4.7; Beatification of Ophelia’s death

'an envious sliver broke...mermaid-like...heavy with drink'

1.2; Hamlet’s anger at religion

'or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter'

5.1; gravedigger hypocrisy of Ophelia

‘Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she wilfully seeks her own salvation…if this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o’ Christian burial'

3.3; Hamlet’s fears of killing Claudius

'this same villain send to heaven'

3.4; Hamlet view of dead polonius

'most secret and most grave who was in life a foolish prating knave'

4.2; Hamlet view of R&G

‘demanded of a sponge…that soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards his authorities…you shall be dry again…Hide fox, and all after'

5.1; Hamlet facing death

'Alas poor Yorick, I knew him...Alexander returneth to dust...where he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel'

3.2; Gertrude laughing at herself

‘the lady doth protest too much methinks’

4.5; Ophelia’s floral madness

'fennel...columbines...rue...daisy...I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died'

1.2; Hamlet’s emasculation

'tis unmanly grief'

1.1/1.4; breaking of Denmark

'tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart’/'something is rotten in the state of Denmark'

1.3; Polonius monetary perception of daughter

'true pay...higher rate...brokers...investments'

1.5; ambiguity of the ghost

'till the foul ctrimes done in my days of nature’

3.3; impossibility of Claudius guilt

'words without thoughts never to heaven go'

4.2; Hamlet’s maddened pointing out of illegitimacy

'the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body'

5.2; Hamlet’s adoption of the royal

'This is I, Hamlet the Dane’

2.2; Hamlet’s self-deprecation

'now I am alone, Oh what a roue and peasant slave am I'

3.1; ambiguity of Hamlet’s love

'I did love you once...I loved you not’

5.2; Horatio realignment with the ancient

'I am more an antique Roman than a Dane

3.3; Claudius crime

‘Oh my offence is rank...it hath the primal eldest curse'

5.2; Hamlet’s last words

'The rest is silence'

5.2; broken rhyming couplet

'such a sight as this...shows much amiss. Go bid the soldiers shoot'