| “bodes some strange eruption to our state” | horatio |
| “if there be any good thing to be done that may to thee do ease and grace to me, speak to me. if thou art privy to thy country’s fate, which happily foreknowing may avoid, o speak!” | horatio |
| “tis bitter cold and i am sick at heart” | francisco |
| “looks he not like the kind? mark it, horatio.” | barnardo |
| “a little more kin and less than kind” | hamlet |
| “And recks not his own reed.” | ophelia |
| “you’ll tender me a fool” | polonius |
| “to thine own self be true” | polonius |
| “they clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase soil our addition. and, indeed, it takes from our achievements.” | hamlet |
| “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” | ghost |
| “i am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house. i could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand an end, like quills upon the fearful porpentine” | ghost |
| “if thou didst thy dear father love, revenge his foul and most unnatral murder” | ghost |
| “the time is out of joint” | hamlet |
| “laying these slight sullies on my son” | polonius |
| “this is the very ecstasy of love” | polonius |
| “it is as proper to our age to cast beyond ourselves in our opinions as it is common for the younger sort to lack discretion” | polonius |
| “more matter, less art” | gertrude |
| “what might you think of me?” | polonius |
| “though this be madness, yet there is method in it… how pregnant sometimes his replies are” | polonius |
| “denmark’s a prison.. for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. to me, it is a prison” | hamlet |
| “a dream itself is but a shadow” | hamlet |
| “what a piece of work is man. how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties.. yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights me not, nor does woman either.” | hamlet |
| “i am but mad north-north-west. when the wind is southerly, i know a hawk from a handsaw.” | hamlet |
| “he that plays the king shall be welcom” | hamlet |
| “he would drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech, make mad the guilty and appall the free, confound the ignorant and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears” | hamlet |
| “out, out, thou strumpet fortune! all you gods in general synod take away her power” | player king |
| “but with a crafty madness keeps aloof when we would bring him on to some confession of his true state” | guildenstern |
| “with devotions visage and pious action we do sugar oer the devil himself” | polonius |
| “the harlot’s cheek beautied with plastering art is not more ugly to the thing that helps it than is my deed to my most painted word. o heavy burden” | claudius |
| “suffer the sling and arrows of outrageous fortune” | hamlet |
| “by sleep we end the heart-ache and the 1000 natural shocks that flesh is heir to.” | hamlet |
| “sleep of death, perchance to dream” | hamlet |
| “thus conscience makes does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, and enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action.” | hamlet |
| “my lord, i have remembrances of yours that i have longed to redeliver. i pray you now receive them.” | ophelia |
| “o what a noble mind is here overthrown” | ophelia |
| “I say, we will have no more marriages; those that are married already, all but one (Claudius); the rest shall keep as they are” | hamlet |
| “woe is me” | ophelia |
| “suit the action to the word, the word to the action” | hamlet |
| “give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and i will wear him in my heart’s core” | hamlet |
| “purpose is but slave to memory… what to ourselves in passion we propose, the passion ending, doth the purpose lose” | player king |
| “a second time i kill my husband dead when second husband kisses me in bed” | player queen |
| “in second husband let me be accurst” | player queen |
| “o good, horatio. ill take ghosts word for 1000 pounds” | hamlet |
| “the lady doth protest too much methinks” | gertrude |
| “sir i lack advancement” | hamlet |
| “let me be cruel but not unnatural” | hamlet |
| “now i could drink not blood and do such bitter business as the day would quaker to look on” | hamlet |
| “i like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness range” | claudius |
| “my words fly up, my thoughts remain below. words without thoughts never to heaven go.” | claudius |
| “pray can i not, though inclination be sharp as will” | claudius |
| “here is your husband, like a mildewed ear blasting his wholesome brother” | hamlet |
| “you cannot call it love, for at your age the hey-dey in the blood is tame – its nimble and watts upon the judgment” | hamlet |
| “speak no more! thou thurnst mine eyes into my very soul; and there i see such black and grained spots as well not leave their tinct. these words like daggers, enter mine ears. no more, sweet hamlet” | gertrude |
| “my heart is cleft intwain” | gertrude |
| “this visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose. but look, amazement on thy mother sits. o, step between her and her fighting soul. conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. speak to her, hamlet” | ghost |
| “remember me” | ghost |
| “i do repent, but heaven hath pleased it so to punish me with this and this with me, that i must be their scourge and minister” | hamlet |
| “thus bad begins and worse remains ahead” | hamlet |
| “for tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard. i will delve one yard below their mines and blow them at the moon” | hamlet |
| “indeed this counseler is now most still, most secert, and most grace who was in life a foolish, prating knave.” | hamlet |
| “the body is with the king, but king is not with the body” | hamlet |
| “must we not put the strong law on him. he’s loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgment, but their eyes” | claudius |
| “do it, england, for like the hectic in my blood he rages and thou must cure me” | claudius |
| “we do gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name” | fortinbras |
| “what is a man if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more” | hamlet |
| “twere food she were spoken with, for she may strew dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds” | horatio |
| “choose, we, laertes shall be king” | messenger |
| “to hell allegiance! vows to the blackest devil! conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! i dare damnation. to this point i stand, that both the worlds i give to negligence, let come what comes, only I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father” | laertes |
| “content to lend you patience with us” | claudius |
| “her weedy trophies and herself fell in the weeping brook. too much water hast thou, poor ophelia” | gertrude |
| “how much i had to calm laertes rage! now i fear ophelia’s death will give it start again” | claudius |
| “has this fellow no feeling of business?” | hamlet |
| “that what base uses we may all return” | hamlet |
| “sweets to the sweet” | gertrude |
| “now pile your dust upon the quick and the living” | laertes |
| “what is the reason that you use me thus? i loved you ever, but it is no matter. let hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew and the dog will have his day” | hamlet |
| “they did make love to this employment” | hamlet |
| “the readiness is all” | hamlet |
| “i am satisfied in nature, whose motive in this case should stir me most to my revenge, but in my terms of honor I stand aloof and will no reconcilement till by some elder masters of known honor i have a voice and precedent of peace to keep my name ungored” | laertes |
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September 9, 2019