Hamlet Quotes

Handy quotes for the revision of HAMLET

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Decay
‘Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart’ Francisco
1 of 83
Unsettling atmosphere
‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state’ Horatio
2 of 83
Corruption in Denmark
‘Our state to be disjoint and out of frame’ Claudius
3 of 83
Hamlet Mourning his father
‘Good Hamlet, cast thy knighted colour off and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark’ Getrude
4 of 83
Hamlet mourning his father
‘Tis unmanly grief’ Claudius
5 of 83
corruption
‘Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature’ Hamlet
6 of 83
Misogyny
‘Frailty, thy name is woman’ Hamlet
7 of 83
Inability to say opinion out loud
‘I must hold my tongue’ Hamlet
8 of 83
Gertrude's over hasty marriage
‘Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral (…) Hamlet: I think it was to see my mother’s wedding’
9 of 83
Chastity
‘Lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open’ Laertes
10 of 83
Irony
‘Do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven’ Ophelia
11 of 83
Advice
‘Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice’ Polonius
12 of 83
Chastity
‘Tender yourself more dearly (…) wronging it thus you’ll tender me a fool ’ Polonius
13 of 83
Polonius about Hamlet
Do not believe his vows, for they are brokers’ Polonius
14 of 83
Women's status
‘I shall obey my lord’ Ophelia
15 of 83
Foreboding
‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ Marcellus
16 of 83
Revenge
‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’ Ghost
17 of 83
Symbolism
‘The serpent’ Ghost
18 of 83
About Claudius
‘That incestuous, that adulterate beast’ Ghost
19 of 83
Claudius' sin
‘won to his shameful lust the will of my most seeming-virtuous Queen’ Ghost
20 of 83
Incest and corruption
‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark, be a couch for luxury and damned incest’ Ghost
21 of 83
Hamlet's nature of a scholar
‘I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records (…) all pressures past’ Hamlet
22 of 83
Claudius as a viallain
‘smiling, damned villain’ Hamlet
23 of 83
Hamlet's madness
‘antic disposition’ Hamlet
24 of 83
Hamlet's burden
‘O cursed spite, that I was ever born to set it right!’ Hamlet
25 of 83
Hamlet's madness
‘Mad for thy love’ Polonius
26 of 83
Hamlet's "love" for Ophelia
‘This is the very ecstasy of love’ Polonius
27 of 83
Hamlet's madness
‘Hamlet’s transformation’ Claudius
28 of 83
Comedy
‘Claudius: Thanks Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern Queen: Thanks Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz’
29 of 83
Incest
‘our hasty marriage’ Gertrude
30 of 83
Madness/Pun
‘you are a fishmonger’ Hamlet
31 of 83
Honesty
‘to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man, picked out of ten thousand’ Hamlet
32 of 83
Madness
‘words, words, words’ Hamlet
33 of 83
Madness
‘Though this be madness, yet there is a method in it’ Polonius
34 of 83
Misogyny
‘strumpet’ Hamlet
35 of 83
Reflection upon life
‘what piece of work is a man (…) a quintessence of dust’ Hamlet
36 of 83
Deception
‘my uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived’ Hamlet
37 of 83
Courage/Revenge
‘I am pigeon livered and lack gall’ Hamlet
38 of 83
Mousetrap play
‘The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’ Hamlet
39 of 83
Madness
‘dangerous lunacy’ Claudius
40 of 83
Madness
‘crafty madness’ Guildenstern
41 of 83
Guilt
‘How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!’ Claudius
42 of 83
Guilt
‘O heavy burden!’ Claudius
43 of 83
Reflection on life/suicide
‘To be or not to be- that is the question; wheter tis nobler in the mind to suffer (…) or to take arms against a sea of troubles’ Hamlet
44 of 83
Love
‘I did love you once’ Hamlet
45 of 83
Pun/chastity
‘Get thee to a nunnery’ Hamlet
46 of 83
Hamlet
‘I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious’ Hamlet
47 of 83
Women
‘if thou wilt marry, marry of a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them’ Hamlet
48 of 83
Women
‘God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another’ Hamlet
49 of 83
Hamlet's Hamartia
'Thinking too precisely on the event'
50 of 83
Madness
‘Madness in great ones must not unwatched go’ Claudius
51 of 83
Sexual pun/allusions
‘Shall I lie on your lap?’ Hamlet
52 of 83
Sexual puns/allusions
‘Country matters (…) nothing’ Hamlet
53 of 83
Authority
‘never alone did the king sigh but with a general groan’ Rosencrantz
54 of 83
Guilt
‘O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven’ Claudius
55 of 83
Guilt and sin
‘Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?’ Claudius
56 of 83
Claudius
‘those effects for which I did the murder, my crown, mine own ambition and my Queen’ Claudius
57 of 83
Insincerity
‘my thoughts fly up, my words remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go’ Claudius
58 of 83
Incest
‘mother you have my father much offended’ Hamlet
59 of 83
Sin
‘A bloody deed- almost as bad, good mother as kill a king and marry with his brother’ Hamlet
60 of 83
Gertrude's repentence
‘thou turn’st my very eyes into my soul’ Gertrude
61 of 83
Incest
‘In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed stewed in corruption’ Hamlet
62 of 83
Getrude's repentence
‘O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain’ Gertrude
63 of 83
Paradox
‘I must be cruel only to be kind’ Hamlet
64 of 83
Revenge/Justice
‘how shall this bloody deed be answered?’ Claudius
65 of 83
Guilt
‘O come away, my soul is full of discord and dismay’ Claudius
66 of 83
R&G
‘to be demanded of a sponge!’ Hamlet
67 of 83
R&G
‘Take you me for a sponge, my lord?’ Rosencrantz
68 of 83
Decay
‘at supper (…) not where he eats, but where he is eaten’ Hamlet
69 of 83
Hamlet's nature as a scholar
‘O from this time forth, my thought be bloody or be nothing worth’ Hamlet
70 of 83
Decay/Disease
‘when sorrows come they come not single spies, but in battalions’ Claudius
71 of 83
Revenge
‘I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father’ Laertes
72 of 83
Justice
‘where the offence is let the great axe fall’ Claudius
73 of 83
Revenge
‘my revenge will come’ Laertes
74 of 83
Metpahor
‘Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?’ Claudius
75 of 83
Revenge
‘revenge should have no bounds’ Claudius
76 of 83
Reflection upon life
‘to what base uses we may return!’ Hamlet
77 of 83
Love
‘I loved Ophelia- forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum’ Hamlet
78 of 83
Justice (?)
‘The cat will mew and the dog will have his day’ Hamlet
79 of 83
Revenge
‘they are not near my conscience. Their defeat does by their own insinuation grow’ Hamlet
80 of 83
Irony
‘I’ll be your foil, Laertes’ Hamlet
81 of 83
Conscience
‘it is almost against my conscience’ Laertes
82 of 83
Justice
‘I am justly killed with mine own treachery’ Laertes
83 of 83

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‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state’ Horatio

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‘Our state to be disjoint and out of frame’ Claudius

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‘Good Hamlet, cast thy knighted colour off and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark’ Getrude

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‘Tis unmanly grief’ Claudius

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