| Hamlet | “Here, thou incestuous, murd’rous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!” |
| Gertrude | “Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct” |
| Ghost | “swear” |
| Polonius | “therefore since brevity is the soul i wit and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, i will be brief” |
| claudius | “what if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother’s blood, is there not enough rain in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow” |
| hamlet | “how now? a rat? dead for a ducat, dead!” |
| osric | “the king, sir, hath laid that, in a dozen passes between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you three hits…” |
| ghost | “cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, unhous’led, disappointed l, unaneled, no reck’ning made…” |
| ophelia | “rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind” |
| gertrude | “the lady doth protest too much, methinks” |
| guildenstern | “my lord, we were sent for” |
| hamlet | “the plays the thing wherein i’ll catch the conscience of the King” |
| polonius | “though this be madness, yes there is a method in’t” |
| hamlet | “…for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” |
| hamlet | “denmarks a prison” |
| laertes | “why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, orsic. i am justly killed with mine own treachery” |
| rosencratris | “take you me for a sponge, my lord?” |
| horatio | “twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds” |
| gertrude | “no, no! the drink, the drink! o my dear hamlet” |
| horatio | … |
| polonius | … |
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| laertes | … |
| second clown | … |
| laertes | … |
| marcellus | … |
| hamlet | … |
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| fortinbras | … |
hamlet quote review – who said that?
August 24, 2019