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24 Terms

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“The apparel

oft’ proclaims the man”

  • By: Polonius

  • To: Laertes

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“Be wary,

best safety lies in fear”

  • By: Laertes

  • To: Ophelia

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“When the blood burns

how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows”

  • By: Polonius

  • To: Ophelia

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“Give thy thought

no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act”

  • By: Polonius

  • To: Laertes

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Give every man

thy ear, but few thy voice, take each man’s censor, but reserve thy judgement”

  • By: Polonius

  • To: Laertes

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“Neither a borrower

nor lender be, for loan oft’ loses both itself and friend”

  • By: Polonius

  • To: Laertes

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“This above all:

to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night be day, though can't not then be false to any man”

  • By: Polonius

  • To: Laertes

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“It is common

for the younger sort to lack discretion”

  • By: Polonius

  • Reynaldo

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“Brevity is

the soul of wit”

By: Polonius

To: Gertrude + Claudius

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“Nothing either good

or bad, but thinking makes it so”

By: Hamlet

To: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 

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“To be honest,

as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of 10,000”

By; Hamlet

To: Polonius

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“What a piece of work is a man!

how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God!”

By: Hamlet

To: Rosencrantz + Guildenstern

13
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“I must be 

cruel, only to be kind”

By; Hamlet

To: Gertrude

14
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“Rich gifts wax

poor when givers prove unkind”

By: Ophelia

To: Hamlet

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“For some must watch,

while some must sleep, so runs the world away”

By: Hamlet

To: Horatio

16
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“For use almost

can change the stamp of nature”

By: Hamlet

To: Gertrude

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“There’s a design at work

in all art, surely you know that”

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“Thus the native

hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought”

By: Hamlet 

To: Ophelia

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“When sorrows come

they come not single spies but in battalions”

By: King Claudius

To: Gertrude

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“We know what

we are but not what we may become”

By: Ophelia

To: King Claudius

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“A knavish speech

sleeps in a foolish ear”

By: Hamlet

To: Rosencrantz

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“Rightly to be great

is not to stir without great argument, but greatly to find the quarrel in a straw when honor’s at the stake”

By: Hamlet

To: Audience

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“Cat will

mew and dog will have his day”

By: Hamlet

To: Everyone at the grave

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“Good night

sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest”

By: Horatio

To: Hamlet