| “That it should come to this!” | Hamlet to self (Act I Scene III) |
| “Frailty, thy name is woman!” | Hamlet about Gertrude (Act I Scene II) |
| “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” | Polonius to Laertes (Act I Scene III) |
| “This above all: to thine own self be true.” | Polonius to Laertes (Act Scene III) |
| “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” | Marcellus to Horatio (Act I Scene IV) |
| “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” | Polonius about Hamlet (Act II Scene II) |
| “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” | Hamlet to self (Act III Scene I) |
| “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” | Gertrude to Hamlet (Act III Scene II) |
| “A little more than kin, and less than kind.” | Hamlet about Claudius (Act I Scene II) |
| “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life, Now wears his crown.” | Ghost to Hamlet (Act I Scene V) |
| “Brevity is the soul of wit,” | Polonius to King Claudius and Queen Gertrude (Act II Scene II) |
| “More matter, with less art.” | Queen Gertrude to Polonius (Act II Scene II) |
| “The play’s the thing, wherein the conscience of the king.” | Hamlet to self (Act II Scene II) |
| “Get thee to a nunnery!” | Hamlet to Ophelia (Act III Scene I) |
| “Madness in great ones must not go unwatch’d.” | Claudius to Polonius (Act III Scene I) |
| “You would play upon me. You would seem to know my stops.” | Hamlet to Guildenstern (Act III Scene II) |
| “I will speak daggers to her but use none.” | Hamlet to self (Act III Scene II) |
| “Oh, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven.” | Claudius to self (Act III Scene III) |
| “To cut his throat i’ th’ church.” | Laertes to Claudius (Act IV Scene VII) |
| “Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia.” | Laertes to Gertrude (Act IV Scene VII) |
| “The devil take thy soul!” | Laertes to Hamlet (Act V Scene I) |
| “Goodnight sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” | Horatio to Hamlet (Act V Scene II) |
| “Stay! Speak, speak! I charge thee, speak.” | Horatio to Ghost (Act I Scene I) |
| “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, That, and resolve itself into a dew.” | Hamlet to self (Act I Scene II) |
| “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” | Ghost to Hamlet (Scene I Act V) |
| “The time out of joint! O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right.” | Hamlet to Horatio, Marcellus, and Ghost (Scene I Act V) |
| “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties.” | Hamlet to Guildenstern and Rosencrantz (Act II Scene II) |
| “Do you think I am easier to be played on that a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.” | Hamlet to Guildenstern (Act III Scene II) |
| “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” | Claudius to self (Act III Scene III) |
| “O shame, where is the blush!” | Hamlet to Gertrude (Act III Scene IV) |
| “O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!” | Hamlet to self (Act IV Scene IV) |
| “He is dead and gone, lady, he is dead and gone.” | Ophelia to Gertrude (Act IV Scene V) |
| “…herself, Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread side, and mermaidlike.” | Gertrude to Laertes (Act IV Scene VIII) |
| “Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.” | Gertrude to the Ophelia (Act V Scene I) |
| “The cat will mew and the dog will have his day.” | Hamlet to Horatio (Act V Scene I) |
| “I am justly killed with my own treachery.” | Laertes to Osric (Act V Scene II) |
| “The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.” | Gertrude to Hamlet (Act V Scene II) |
| “The king, the king’s to blame.” | Laertes to Hamlet (Act V Scene II) |
| “Let four captains, bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage.” | Fortinbras to Horatio (Act V Scene II) |
AP Literature Hamlet Quotes Test
September 6, 2019