| “Is she to be buried in Christian burial that willfully seeks her own salvation?” | GRAVEDIGGER about Ophelia |
| “But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.” | GRAVEDIGGER |
| “He was the first that ever bore arms.” | GRAVEDIGGER |
| “Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?” | HAMLET |
| “I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in’t.” | HAMLET to Gravedigger |
| “Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, manand boy, thirty years.” | GRAVEDIGGER |
| “Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.” | HAMLET |
| !!!! “To what base uses we may return, Horatio!” | HAMLET to Horatio |
| “Lay her i’ the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.” | LAERTES about OPHELIA |
| “Hold off the earth awhile, Till I have caught her once more in mine arms” | LAERTES |
| “What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I, Hamlet the Dane.” | HAMLET |
| “I loved you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.” | HAMLET to Laertes? |
| “Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.” | KING CLAUDIUS to Queen |
| “Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will” | HAMLET to Horatio |
| “What is he that builds stronger than either themason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?” | GRAVEDIGGER |
| “Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that hesings at grave-making?””‘Tis e’en so: the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.” | HAMLET about GRAVEDIGGER to Horatio |
| “Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.” | HORATIO about GRAVEDIGGER |
| “the age is grown so picked that the toe of thepeasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, hegalls his kibe.” | HAMLET |
| “Her obsequies have been as far enlarged As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful; And, but that great command o’ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctified have lodged Till the last trumpet” | DOCTOR about OPHELIA |
| !!! “The devil take thy soul!” | LAERTES to Hamlet |
| !!!! “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will” | HAMLET to Horatio |
| “An earnest conjuration from the king, As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma ‘tween their amities,And many such-like ‘As’es of great charge, That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving-time allow’d.” | HAMLET |
| “Being thus be-netted round with villanies,– Ere I could make a prologue to my brains, They had begun the play–I sat me down, Devised a new commission, wrote it fair: I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair and labour’d much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now It did me yeoman’s service: wilt thou know The effect of what I wrote?” | HAMLET |
| “‘Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.” | HAMLET |
| !!!! “I will receive it, sir, with all diligence ofspirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; ’tis for the head.” | HAMLET to OSRIC |
| !!!! “Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,–as ’twere,–I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter” | OSRIC to HAMLET |
| “His purse is empty already; all’s golden words are spent” | HORATIO to Hamlet about Osric |
| “which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.” | HAMLET |
| !!!!! “I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all’s here about my heart: but it is no matter.” | HAMLET to Horatio |
| !!!!! “Not a whit, we defy augury: there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all” | HAMLET to Horatio |
| “Was’t Hamlet wrong’d Laertes? Never Hamlet: If Hamlet from himself be ta’en away, And when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes, Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. Who does it, then? His madness: if’t be so, Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong’d; His madness is poor Hamlet’s enemy.” | HAMLET to LAERTES |
| !!!! “I’ll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance Your skill shall, like a star i’ the darkest night, Stick fiery off indeed.” | HAMLET to LAERTES |
| !!!! ” And yet ’tis almost ‘gainst my conscience.” | LAERTES (aside) |
| !!!!! “Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric; I am justly kill’d with mine own treachery.” | LAERTES to Osric |
| “It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain; No medicine in the world can do thee good; In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom’d: the foul practise Hath turn’d itself on me” | LAERTES to HAMLET |
| “The point!–envenom’d too! Then, venom, to thy work.” | HAMLET to Laertes |
| !!!! “O, I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England;But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less, Which have solicited. The rest is silence.” | HAMLET to Horatio |
| !!!! “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” | HORATIO about HAMLET |
Hamlet Act 5 Quotes
July 31, 2019