| “Frailty, thy name is woman!” | Hamlet |
| “A little more than kin, and less than kind.” | Hamlet |
| “O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.” | Hamlet |
| “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine,Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.And recks not his own rede.” | Ophelia |
| “This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.” | Polonius |
| “Look, with what courteous actionIt waves you to a more removed ground:But do not go with it.” | Marcellus |
| “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” | Marcellus |
| “Neither a borrower nor a lender be:For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” | Polonius |
| “The serpent that did sting thy father’s lifeNow wears his crown.” | Ghost |
| “The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,That ever I was born to set it right!” | Hamlet |
| “More matter with less art.” | Gertrude |
| “The play’s the thing,Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” | Hamlet |
| “To be or not to be…” | Hamlet |
| “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” | Gertrude |
| “Tis now the very witching time of night,When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes outContagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,And do such bitter business, as the dayWould quake to look on.” | Hamlet |
| “Oh, I am slain!” | Polonius |
| “I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.” | Hamlet |
| ” The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing-“ | Hamlet |
| ” In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i’ the other place yourself. But, indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.” | Hamlet |
| “O! from this time forth,My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” | Hamlet |
| “Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,And therefore I forbid my tears.” | Laertes |
| “I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.” | Hamlet |
| “Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.” | Hamlet |
| “Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” | Horatio |
| “O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt.” | Claudius |
Hamlet Objective Test (Quotes)
August 21, 2019