“We are oft to blame in this- ‘Tis too much proved- that with devotion’s visage (face) and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.” | Polonius to King |
“To be, or not to be, that is the question” | Hamlet to Himself |
“To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub.” | Hamlet to Himself |
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.” | Hamlet to Himself |
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.” | Hamlet to Himself |
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.” | Ophelia to Hamlet |
“Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thous be a breeder of sinners?” | Hamlet to Ophelia |
“Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them.” | Hamlet to Ophelia |
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” | King to Polonius |
“Purpose is but the slave to memory” | Player King to Player Queen |
“The lady doth protest too much methinks” | Queen to Hamlet |
“…my wit’s diseased” | Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me” | Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none.” | Hamlet to Queen |
“Oh, my offense is rank! It smells to heaven.” | Claudius to Himself |
“My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.” | Claudius to Himself |
“Forgive me my foul murder? That cannot be, since I am still possessed of those effects for which I did the murder.” | Claudius to Himself |
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words with out thoughts never to heaven go.” | Claudius to Himself |
“Assume a virture, if you have it not.” | Hamlet to Queen |
“I must be cruel only to be kind.” | Hamlet to Queen |
“That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.” | Hamlet to Queen |
“I’ll lug the guts into the neighbor room.” | Hamlet to Queen |
“When he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you , and, sponge, you shall be dry again.” | Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
“Not where he eats, but where ‘a is eaten.” | Hamlet to Claudius |
“Till I know ’tis done, Howe’er my haps, my joys were we’er begun.” | King to Himself |
“‘This thing’s to do’, sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means to do’t.” | Hamlet to Himself |
“Oh, from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!” | Hamlet to Himself |
“When, sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” | King to Queen |
“That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once.” | Hamlet to Horatio |
“Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.” | Queen to Ophelia |
“The cat will mew, and the dog will have this day.” | Hamlet to Laertes |
“I am justly killed with mine own treachery,” | Laertes to Hamlet |
“For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royal.” | Fortinbras to Horatio |
Hamlet
August 21, 2019