| You shall do marvelous wisely, Good Reynaldo, before you visit him. | Polonius | 
| And there put on him which forgeries you please. | Polonius | 
| Pale as his shirt, knees knocking | Ophelia | 
| This is the very ecstasy of love | Polonius | 
| The need we have to use you did provoke hasty sending | King | 
| He hath talk much of you | Queen | 
| But we both obey | Ros/Guild | 
| And I do think I have found the cause of Hamlet’s lunacy | Polonius | 
| Falsely born in hand, sends out arrests on Fortinbras | Voltemand | 
| Brevity is the soul of wit | Polonius | 
| More matter with less art | Queen | 
| That he’s mad, ’tis true ’tis pity, and pity ’tis true; a foolish figure | Polonius | 
| Though this be madness, yet method in’t | Polonius | 
| On Fortune’s cap, we are not the very button | Ros./Guild | 
| Nothing whether good or bad but thinking makes it so | Hamlet | 
| Bounded in a nutshell | Hamlet | 
| Light a quality that is but a shadow’s shadow | Ros./Guild | 
| Lost all my mirth, foregone custom of exercises | Hamlet | 
| Painted tyrant Pyrrhus stood | Player 1 | 
| Use every man after his desert | Hamlet | 
| What a rogue and peasant slave am I! | Hamlet | 
| What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba | Hamlet | 
| …And the devil hath power | Hamlet | 
| Catch the conscience of the king | Hamlet | 
Act 2 Hamlet Quotes
 August 28, 2019