Hamlet quotations

Hamlet

• 'I should ha' fatted all the region's kites.'- Hamlet views Claudius simply as pigeon food. He believes he should have already killed Claudius and left him out to be eaten.
• 'I have sworn't.'- Hamlet has sworn that he will avenge his father. Controversial amongst elizabethan audience because he has sworn to God to carry out an action prompted by a ghost. With the creation of Queen Elizabeth's church, there was religious turmoil in the audience, in which Catholics beleived ghosts were simply walking Earth in wait of their journey to the heaven (this was known as Purgatory), wheres Protestants beleived that ghosts were simply sent by the devil to trick people into committing unholy acts.
• 'The ghost I have seen may be a devil.'-Much like the audience, Hamlet questions whether this ghost is trustworthy or not and so decides to put on the 'The Mousetrap' to prove the ghost right or wrong:
• 'the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.'
• 'What, frightened with false fire?'- Hamlet is given the proof he needs to avenge his father when Caludius is unsettled by the 'Mousetrap.'
  
• 'my wit's diseased.'
• 'I am but mad north-north-west.'
• 'to put on an antic disposition.'-Hamlet pretends to be mad to cover up any suspicious behaviour as he plans to kill Claudius.
• 'from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or of nothing worth.'-Hamlet is determined to kill Claudius and is frustrated that his thoughts are getting in the way.
• 'A little more than kin and less than kind'- More than kin because Hamlet and…