Hamlet Quotes

'With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage'

Claudius

1 of 136

'Defeated joy'

Claudius

2 of 136

'Our cousin, and our son'

Claudius

3 of 136

'A little more than kin, and less than kind'

Hamlet

4 of 136

'Tis unmanly grief, it shows a will most incorrect to heaven'

Claudius

5 of 136

'The heavens shall bruit again'

Claudius

6 of 136

'O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into/ A dew

Hamlet

7 of 136

'Or that the Everlasting has not fixed his canon 'gainst self slaughter'

Hamlet

8 of 136

'How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world'

Hamlet

9 of 136

'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross/ In nature possess it merely.'

Hamlet

10 of 136

'Hyperion to a satyr'

Hamlet

11 of 136

'Frailty, thy name is woman'

Hamlet

12 of 136

'No more like my father than I to Hercules'

Hamlet

13 of 136

'O most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets'

Hamlet

14 of 136

'He was a man'

Hamlet

15 of 136

'The canker galls the infants of the spring/ Too oft before their buttons be disclosed'

Laertes

16 of 136

'Do not...show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,/ Whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of/ Dalliance treads'

Ophelia

17 of 136

'I shall obey, my lord'

Ophelia

18 of 136

'As he drains his draughts of Rhenish down'

Hamlet

19 of 136

'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark'

Marcellus

20 of 136

'Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder'

Ghost

21 of 136

'Spirit of health or goblin damned'

Hamlet

22 of 136

'The whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process rankly abused'

Ghost

23 of 136

'That incestuous, adulterate beast'

Ghost

24 of 136

'Most lazar - like, with vile and loathsome crust, all my/ Smooth body'

Ghost

25 of 136

'Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin'

Ghost

26 of 136

'Leave her to heaven'

Ghost

27 of 136

'I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on'

Hamlet

28 of 136

'We both obey...To lay our services freely at your feet, to be commanded'

Guildenstern

29 of 136

'I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy'

Polonius

30 of 136

'Father's death and o'erhasty marriage'

Gertrude

31 of 136

Lord Hamlet is a prince out of thy star'

Polonius

32 of 136

'At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him'

Polonius

33 of 136

'Let her not walk i'th'sun. Conception is a blessing. But not as your daughter/ May concieve

Hamlet

34 of 136

'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't'

Polonius

35 of 136

'You were sent for'

Hamlet

36 of 136

'Goodly frame'

Hamlet

37 of 136

'Sterile promontory'

Hamlet

38 of 136

'Appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of/ Vapours'

Hamlet

39 of 136

'Seemed i'th'air to stick'

Player

40 of 136

'Had he the motive and cue for passion that I have?'

Hamlet

41 of 136

'Drown the stage with tears'

Hamlet

42 of 136

'Unpregnant of my cause, and can say nothing'

Hamlet

43 of 136

'Bloody, bawdy villain'

Hamlet

44 of 136

'Like a whore, unpack my heart with words'

Hamlet

45 of 136

'I am pigeon - livered and lack gall'

Hamlet

46 of 136

'I'll have grounds more relative than this'

Hamlet

47 of 136

'Crafty madness'

Claudius

48 of 136

'With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil'

Polonius

49 of 136

'O heavy burden'

Claudius

50 of 136

'To be or not to be - that is the question'

Hamlet

51 of 136

'Tis a consummation'

Hamlet

52 of 136

'Undiscovered country'

Hamlet

53 of 136

'Thus conscience does make cowards of us all'

Hamlet

54 of 136

'The power of beauty will sooner transform honesty'

Hamlet

55 of 136

'Get thee to a nunnery'

Hamlet

56 of 136

'Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them'

Hamlet

57 of 136

'God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another'

Hamlet

58 of 136

'You jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname god's creatures'

Hamlet

59 of 136

'I say we will have no more marriages. Those that are married already - all/ But one - shall live'

Hamlet

60 of 136

'That unmatched form, that feature of blown youth blasted with ecstacy'

Ophelia

61 of 136

'I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be some danger'

Claudius

62 of 136

'Commencement of this grief sprung from neglected love'

Polonius

63 of 136

'The mirror up to nature'

Hamlet

64 of 136

'My wit's diseased'

Hamlet

65 of 136

'Hell itself breathes out contagion to this world'

Hamlet

66 of 136

'O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven'

Claudius

67 of 136

'My crown, mine own ambition, my queen'

Claudius

68 of 136

'What form of prayer can serve my turn?'

Claudius

69 of 136

'May one be pardoned and retain th'offence?'

Claudius

70 of 136

'Now might I do it pat'

Hamlet

71 of 136

'And so he goes to heaven, and so I am revenged'

Hamlet

72 of 136

'That would be scanned'

Hamlet

73 of 136

'When he is drunk asleep...or in th'incestuous pleasure of his/ Bed'

Hamlet

74 of 136

'Such an act...takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent/Love and sets a blister there'

Hamlet

75 of 136

'Like a mildewed ear blasting his wholesome brother'

Hamlet

76 of 136

'At your age the heyday in the blood is tame'

Hamlet

77 of 136

'The rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and/Making love

Hamlet

78 of 136

'Lay not a flattering unction to your soul.../It will but skin and film the ulcerous place/ Whilst rank corruption, mining all within/ Infects unseen'

Hamlet

79 of 136

'Thou hast cleft my heart in twain'

Gertrude

80 of 136

'Go not to my uncle's bed./ Assume a virtue if you have it not'

Hamlet

81 of 136

'Mad as the sea and wind when both contend/ Which is the mightier'

Gertrude

82 of 136

'He whips his rapier out, and cries 'a rat, a rat,'/ And in his brainish apprehension kills/ The unseen good old man.'

Gertrude

83 of 136

'It had been so with us had we been there'

Claudius

84 of 136

'The owner of a foul disease'

Claudius

85 of 136

'We must with all our majesty and skill/Both countenance and excuse'

Claudius

86 of 136

'Yet must we not put the strong law on him./He's loved of the distracted multitude.'

Claudius

87 of 136

'Diseases desperate grown/ By desperate appliance are relieved.'

Claudius

88 of 136

'We fat all creatures else/ To fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.'

Hamlet

89 of 136

'A king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar'

Hamlet

90 of 136

'For like the hectic in my blood he rages/ And thou must cure me'

Claudius

91 of 136

'Her winks and nods and gestures'

Horatio

92 of 136

'Before you tumbled me,/You promised me to wed'

Ophelia

93 of 136

'O this is the poison of deep grief; it springs/All from her father's death'

Claudius

94 of 136

'That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me *******'

Laertes

95 of 136

'There's such divinity doth hedge a king/ That treason can but peep to what it would'

Claudius

96 of 136

'I dare damnation'

Laertes

97 of 136

'Tears seven times salt/ Burn out the virtue of mine eye'

Laertes

98 of 136

'And we shall jointly labour with your soul/ To give it due content'

Claudius

99 of 136

'In the grapple I boarded them'

Hamlet

100 of 136

'Convert his guilts to graces'

Claudius

101 of 136

'I will work him/ To an exploit, now ripe in my device'

Claudius

102 of 136

'You may choose/ A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice/ Requite him for your father'

Claudius

103 of 136

'I will do't;/ And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword'

Laertes

104 of 136

'I'll have prepared him/ A chalice for the nonce'

Claudius

105 of 136

'Fell in the weeping brook'

Gertrude

106 of 136

'That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once'

Hamlet

107 of 136

'How long will a man lie i'th'earth ere he rot?'

Hamet

108 of 136

'If he be not rotten before he die - as/ We have many pocky corpses nowadays that will scarce/ Hold the laying in'

First Clown

109 of 136

'Now how abhorred in my imagination it is! / My gorge rises at it'

Hamlet

110 of 136

'Who is that they follow? / And with such maimed rites?'

Hamlet

111 of 136

'I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife'

Gertrude

112 of 136

'O, treble woe/ Fall ten times on that cursed head.'

Laertes

113 of 136

'Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead/ Till of this flat a mountain you have made'

Laertes

114 of 136

'Who is he whose grief/ Bears such emphasis?'

Hamlet

115 of 136

'I prithee take thy fingers off my throat,/ For though I am not splenative and rash/ Yet have I something in me dangerous'

Hamlet

116 of 136

'I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum.'

Hamlet

117 of 136

'Rashly -/ And praised for rashness for it; let us know/ our indiscretion sometimes serves us well/ When our dear plots do pall'

Hamlet

118 of 136

'There's a divinity that shapes our ends,/Rough hew them how we will'

Hamlet

119 of 136

'Why, man, they did make love to their employment./They are not near my conscience'

Hamlet

120 of 136

'He that hath killed my king and whored my mother,/Popped in between th'election and my hopes'

Hamlet

121 of 136

'For by the image of my cause I see/ The portraiture of his'

Hamlet

122 of 136

'Put your bonnet to his right use'

Hamlet

123 of 136

'There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow'

Hamlet

124 of 136

'The readiness is all.'

Hamlet

125 of 136

'The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath/And in the cup an union shall he throw'

Claudius

126 of 136

'Gertrude, do not drink'

Claudius

127 of 136

'And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience'

Laertes

128 of 136

'I am justly killed with mine own treachery'

Laertes

129 of 136

'The foul practice hath turned itself against me'

Laertes

130 of 136

'The king, the king's to blame'

Laertes

131 of 136

'Is thy union here?'

Hamlet

132 of 136

'But I do prophesy th'election lights/ On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice'

Hamlet

133 of 136

'For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune'

Fortinbras

134 of 136

'Let four captains/Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage'

Fortinbras

135 of 136

'And for his passage,/The soldiers' music and the rites of war/Speak loudly for him'

Fortinbras

136 of 136

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