Hamlet Quotes
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Hamlet's view on:
Claudius
"A little more than kin, and less than kind”
“Smiling, damned villain!”
“Keeps wassail” “drains his draughts of Rhenish down”
“Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!”
“what, frighted with false fire!”
Polonius
“these tedious old fools”
“I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room”
“you are a fishmonger”
“thou wretched rash, intruding fool, farewell.”
Hamlet's view on: (cont.)
On Gertrude/Ophelia/Women
“I shall in my best obey you madam”
“like Niobe, all tears”
“incestuous sheets”
“Frailty, thy name is Woman”
“Get thee to a nunnery”
“Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them”
“I have heard of your paintings too, God has given you one face and you paint yourself another”
“Mother, you have my father much offended”
“you jig, you amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures”
“I will speak daggers to her, but I shall use none”
Suicide: (cont.)
“O that this too too solid flesh would melt”
“Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd his canon 'gainst self-slaughter”
“weary, stale, flat and unprofitable”
“To be or not to be”
“I am pigeon-livered and lack gall”
“Denmark’s a prison”
“contagion to this world”
“'tis an unweeded garden, / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature/ Possess it merely”
“That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once”
“Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her”
“is she to be buried in a christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?”
“I am more an antique roman than dane, here’s yet some liquor left”
Hamlet's view on: (cont.)
Revenge/Action/Inaction/Ruthlessness
“I am pigeon-livered and lack gall”
“Am I a coward?”
“proud, revengeful, ambitious”
“the play’s the thing/ Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”
“thinking too precisely on the event”
“a thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward”
“O from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth”
“they are not near my conscience” (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern)
Madness:
“to put an antic disposition on”
“I am but mad north-north west, when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw”
“O What a noble mind is here o’erthrown!”
“Madness in great ones shall not unwatched go”
“I did love you once”...”I loved you not”
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”
Gertrude - "Alas, he is mad"
Polonius - "The ecstacy of love" (The cause of Hamlets madness)
Claudius - "his easily excitable mind"
Ophelia - "A great mind o'erthrown"
Revenge:
Hamlet
“I am pigeon-livered and lack gall”
“Am I a coward?”
“proud, revengeful, ambitious”
“the play’s the thing/ Wherein i’ll catch the conscience of the king”
”A villain kills my father, and for that i his sole son do this same villain send/ To heaven”
“thinking too precisely on the event”
“a thought which quartered hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward”
“O from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth”
“O cursed spite/ That ever i was born to set it right”
Revenge: (cont.)
Laertes
“I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father”
“But my revenge will come”
“O treble woe, fall ten times treble on that cursed head”
“the devil take thy soul”
“to cut his throat i’ th’ church”
“Exchange forgiveness with me noble Hamlet”
Fortinbras
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name”
“delicate and tender prince”
“To all that fortune, death and danger dare, And for an egg shell”
Revenge: (cont.)
Laertes
“I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father”
“But my revenge will come”
“O treble woe, fall ten times treble on that cursed head”
“the devil take thy soul”
“to cut his throat i’ th’ church”
“Exchange forgiveness with me noble Hamlet”
Fortinbras
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name”
“delicate and tender prince”
“To all that fortune, death and danger dare, And for an egg shell”
Hamlet's view on: (cont.)
Women
“incestuous sheets”
“Frailty, thy name is Woman”
“i did love you once”
“Get thee to a nunnery”
“Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them”
“I have heard of your paintings too,God has given you one face and you paint yourself another”
“Mother, you have my father much offended”
“you jig, you amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures”
“I will speak daggers to her, but i shall use none”
“’tis brief my lord...” “as woman’s love”
Ophelia:
“you speak like a green girl”, “I will obey my lord”
"I do not know, my lord, what I should think"
“the fair Ophelia”
“i was the more deceived”
“Sucked the honey of his musicked vows”
“i would offer you violets but they withered all when my father died”
“i hop’d thou shouldst have been Hamlet’s wife”
“I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”
“chaste treasure”
Gertrude:
“She is so conjunctive to my life and soul”
“my too much changed son”
“i hop’d thou shouldst have been Hamlet’s wife”
Player Queen: “A second time i kill my husband dead, when second husband kisses me in bed”
“the lady doth protest too much, methinks” - Irony
"O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain"
"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off"
Claudius:
Worry/Guilt
“he shall with speed to England”
“i like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness range”
“O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven”
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go”
Cleverness/Shrewdness
“Love? His affections do not way tend”
“what he spake...was not like madness”
Love
“my crown, mine own ambition and my queen”
“she is so conjunctive to my life and soul”
Love:
Hamlet and Ophelia
“i did love you once”...”i loved you not”
“I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”
“he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion”
“with almost all the holy vows of heaven”
Claudius and Gertrude
“my crown, mine own ambition and my queen”
“she is so conjunctive to my life and soul”
Laertes and Ophelia
“From her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring”
“I tell thee churlish priest, A minist’ring angel shall my sister be when thou liest howling"
Love: (cont.)
Hamlet and Gertrude
“i shall in my best obey you madam”
“I shall speak daggers to her, but i will use none”
“my too much changed son”
“i hoped thou shouldst have been Hamlet’s wife”
“Incestuous sheets”
“You are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife.”
Polonius
“i would give you violets but they withered all when my father died”
“Give thy thoughts no tongue”
“you speak like a green girl”
“I’ll loose my daughter to him”
State of Denmark:
"tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed things rank and gross in nature
"something rotten in the state of denmark"
“so the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused”
“O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!”
"sick at heart"
"many a pocky corpse"
"dont throw manure onto the weeds to make them ranker"
“Denmark’s a prison”
“the air bites shrewdly, it is very cold.”
“i think it lacks of twelve”
“who there?”
“contagion to this world”
Suicide:
“O that this too too solid flesh would melt”
“Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd his canon 'gainst self-slaughter”
“stale, flat and unprofitable”
“to be or not to be”
“contagion to this world”
“Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her”
“is she to be buried in a christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?”
“I am more an antique roman than dane, here’s yet some liquor left”
Death of Characters:
LAERTES: “I am justly killed with mine own treachery” "Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet."
HAMLET: “Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage”, “Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince.” (Horatio)
CLAUDIUS: “He is justly served, it is a poison tempered by himself” (Laertes)
QUEEN: “The drink, the drink - I am poisoned."
OPHELIA: “Is she to be buried in a christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?” (Gravedigger)
POLONIUS: “I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room.” (Hamlet)
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