| 1.5, Hamlet: The time is out of joint. | The time is out of joint. O, cursed spite,/ That ever I was born to set it right! |
| 1.5, Hamlet tells the Ghost that he is | ‘bound to hear’ his story |
| 5.2, Hamlet: there’s a divinity | There’s a divinity that shapes our ends |
| 3.2, Hamlet, after seeing Claudius’ reaction to the play: Now I could | Now I could drink hot blood |
| 3.4, Hamlet says he will | ‘speak daggers’ to his mother |
| 4.4, Hamlet compares himself to Fortinbras’ | divine ambition |
| 4.4, Hamlet: from this time forth,/ | from this time forth,/ my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth |
| 1.5, Hamlet: I, with wings | I, with wings as swift/ as meditation or the thoughts of love,/ may sweep to my revenge |
| 5.2, Hamlet: and is’t not to be damned/ | and is’t not to be damned/ to let this canker of our nature come/ in further evil? |
| 5.2, Laertes’ dying words: ‘the king, | the king, the king’s to blame |
| 1.5, Ghost asks Hamlet to ‘revenge | revenge his foul and most unnatural murder |
| 1.5, Ghost is ‘doomed for a certain term to walk the night/ | doomed for a certain term to walk the night/ and for the day confined to fast in fires |
| 1.5, Ghost tells Hamlet to ‘leave her | leave her to heaven |
| Act 3, Hamlet: ‘those that are married already, | those that are married already, all but one shall live’ |
| 5.2, Hamlet on Laertes: ‘for by the image… | for by the image of my cause, I see/ The portraiture of his |
| 1.1, Horatio describes Fortinbras as ‘of unimproved | of unimproved mettle hot and full |
| Act 3, Ghost: this visitation | this visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose |
| 1.5, Ghost: ‘and in the porches of my ears did pour | and in the porches of my ears did pour/ The leperous distilment |
| 4.5, Laertes after hearing his father is dead: ‘to hell allegiance! | to hell allegiance! vows to the blackest devil! |
| 4.5, Laertes: ‘I dare… | I dare damnation |
| 1.1, Hamlet: my fate | my fate cries out |
| ‘bloody, bawdy villain! | bloody, bawdy villain!/ remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!/ Oh, vengeance! |
| Ophelia refers to Hamlet as ‘the expectancy… | the expectancy and rose of the fair state |
| Hamlet: ‘to die, to sleep;/ | to die, to sleep;/ to sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub |
Hamlet quotes: Revenge, action, inaction
August 20, 2019