| Claudius | “Tis unmanly, grief.” |
| Hamlet | “How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses in this world.” |
| Hamlet | “The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.” |
| Polonius | “Apparel oft proclaims the man.” |
| Polonius | “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” |
| Hamlet | “I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.” |
| Hamlet | “The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right.” |
| Claudius | “We pray you, throw to Earth this unprevailing woe, and think of us as a father.” |
| Hamlet | “He was a man. Take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.” |
| Hamlet | “O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain. That one may smile and smile and be a villain.” |
| The Ghost | “Know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.” |
| The Ghost | “Revenge this most foul and unnatural murder.” |
| The Ghost | “Remember me!” |
| Marcellus | “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” |
| Hamlet | “Frailty, thy name is woman.” |
| Polonius | “To thine own self be true.” |
| Polonius | “Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.” |
| Hamlet | “The play’s the thing…” |
| Hamlet | “What a piece of work is a man.” |
| Polonius | “Mad for thy love.” |
| Hamlet | “You are a fishmonger.” |
| Hamlet | “Words, words, words.” |
| Hamlet | “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | “We were sent for, my lord.” |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | “On Fortune’s cap, we are not the very button.” |
| Gertrude | “More matter, less art.” |
| Hamlet | “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I.” |
| Ophelia | “O my lord, my lord. I have been so affrighted.” |
| Polonius | “Brevity is the soul of wit.” |
| Hamlet | To be or not to be, that is the question. |
| Hamlet | …the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune… |
| Hamlet | To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream. |
| Hamlet | In that sleep of death, what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil. |
| Hamlet | …the undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler returns… |
| Hamlet | Get thee to a nunnery! |
| Ophelia | O, woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see! |
| Claudius | Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go. |
| Gertrude | The lady doth protest too much, methinks. |
| Claudius | My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. |
| Gertrude | Thou hast thy father much offended. |
| Gertrude | O, what a rash and bloody deed this is! |
| Gertrude | O, speak to me no more. These words like daggers enter in mine ears. |
| Hamlet | I must be cruel, only to be kind. |
| Hamlet | For ’tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard. |
| Hamlet | “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him.” |
| Hamlet | “What! The fair Ophelia?” |
| Gertrude | “Sweets to the sweet. Farewell.” |
| Laertes | “Hold off the earth awhile til I have caught her once more in my arms.” |
| Claudius | “Gertrude, do not drink.” |
| Laertes | “I am justly killed with mine own treachery.” |
| Gertrude | “The drink, the drink. I am poisoned.” |
| Horatio | “Good night, sweet prince, and flights o angels sing thee to thy rest.” |
| Fortinbras | “Let four captains bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage.” |
| Hamlet | “Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?” |
| Gravedigger (aka Clown) | “You lie out on’t, sir, and therefore ’tis not yours. For my part, I do not lie in’t, yet it is mine.” |
| Hamlet | “If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, absent thee from felicity awhile and in thei harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story.” |
| Hamlet | I do prophesy the election lights on Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.” |
| Hamlet | “Cat will mew but dog will have its day.” |
| Hamlet | The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body. |
| Hamlet | A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm…to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. |
| Claudius | For England!…If thou knew’st our purpose! |
| Claudius | …The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England! |
| Hamlet | What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? |
| Hamlet | I do not know why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,” sith I have cause and will and strength and means to do’t. |
| Hamlet | Oh from this time, my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth! |
| Laertes | O thou vile king, give me my father! |
| Ophelia | There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance…and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts…there’s fennel for you, and columbines… |
| Hamlet | High and mighty, you shall know I am set naked on your kingdom. |
| Laertes | To cut his throat i’ the church! |
| Claudius | What would you undertake to show yourself your father’s son in deed more than in words? |
| Gertrude | One woe doth tread upon another’s heel so fast they follow. |
| Laertes | Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia. |
Hamlet Act 1 Quizlet, Hamlet Act 2 Quizlet, Hamlet Act 3, Hamlet Act 5, Hamlet Act 4
November 27, 2019