| Claudius re King’s death | Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death/ The memory be green, and that it us bequitted |
| Claudius re Recent Marriage | Therefore, our sometime sister, now our queen,/ The imperial jointress to this warlike state |
| Claudius appeals to Laertes | The head is not more native to the heart/ The hand more instrumental to the the mouth/ Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father |
| Hamlet’s first gibe | A little more than kin, and less than kind |
| Claudius questions Hamlets bitterness | How is that the clouds still hang on you? |
| Hamlet’s second gibe | Not so my lord; I am too much in the sun |
| Gertrude advises Hamlet to stop mourning | Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,/ And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark/ Do not forever with thy veilèd lids/ Seek for thy father in the dust |
| Gertrude’s ‘seemingly’ offensive comment | Why seems it so particular with thee? |
| Hamlet’s angry response to mother | ‘Seems’, Madam! Nay it is. I know not ‘seems’/ …But I have that within which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe |
| Claudius re Hamlets grieving | But to persevere in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness./ ‘Tis unmanly grief/…’Tis a fault to heaven |
| Claudius re Heirdom | most immediate to our throne |
| Claudius re Hamlet’s returning to Wittenberg | In going back to Wittenberg, It is most retrogade to our desire |
| Claudius’ nice remark | in the cheer and comfort of our eye,/ our chiefest courtier, cousin and our son |
| Gertrude asks Hamlet not to leave | I pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – Wish for death | O that this too too solid flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew./ Or that the everlasting had not fixed/ His canon ‘gaint self-slaughter. |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – State of world | How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable/ Seem to me all the uses of this world!/…Tis an unweeded garden/ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature/ Posess it merely |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – Claudius/Old Hamlet comparison | …Hyperion to a satyr |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – Old Hamlet’s treating of Gertrude | …That he might not beteem the winds of heaven/ Visit her face too roughly… |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – Gertrude towards Old Hamlet | …Why, she would hang on him |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – Gertude is weak | …frailty, thy name is woman! |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – Gertrude/Claudius relationship | …incestuous sheets! |
| Hamlet’s 1st Soliloquy – Hamlet cannot speak out against this marriage | …It is not, nor can it come to good,/ But break my heart, for i must hold my tongue. |
| Hamlet re Horatio | my good friend |
| Hamlet re drinking in Denmark | We’ll teach to drink deep ere you depart |
| Hamlet re Funeral and Wedding proximity | the funeral baked meats/ Did coldly furnish forth the marriage the marriage table |
| Horatio re The Ghost | A countenance more in sorrow than in anger |
| Hamlet re Speaking to the ghost | I’ll speak to it, though hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace |
| Hamlet’s omen re Ghost | I doubt some foul play… Foul deeds will rise,/ Though all the earth o’erwhelm them to men’s eyes |
Hamlet Quotes – Act 1, Scene 2
August 11, 2019