Hamlet Quotes

Question 1

‘_____ yourself!’

Answer 1

‘Unfold yourself!’
- Francisco
- A1SI

Question 2

‘_____ cold’

Answer 2

‘Bitter cold’
- Bernardo
- A1SI

Question 3

‘Not a _____ stirring’

Answer 3

‘Not a mouse stirring’
- Francisco
- A1SI

Question 4

The ghost was claim in ‘_____’.

Answer 4

‘Armour’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 5

The ghost was ‘_____ and _____’.

Answer 5

‘Fair and warlike’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 6

The ghost walked away in a ‘_____’.

Answer 6

‘March’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 7

(About the ghost) ‘It _____ away’.

Answer 7

‘It stalks away’
- Bernardo
- A1SI

Question 8

‘_____ to our state’

Answer 8

‘Eruption to our state’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 9

(First mention of Hamlet) ‘_____ Hamlet’

Answer 9

‘Valiant Hamlet’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 10

‘_____ and _____ in the Roman streets’

Answer 10

‘Squeak and gibber in the Roman streets’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 11

‘This _____ will speak to him’

Answer 11

‘This spirit will speak to him’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 12

‘Unfold _____’

Answer 12

‘Unfold yourself’
- Francisco
- A1SI

Question 13

‘Not a mouse _____’

Answer 13

‘Not a mouse stirring’
- Francisco
- A1SI

Question 14

‘Eruption to our _____’

Answer 14

‘Eruption to our state’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 15

‘Valiant _____’

Answer 15

‘Valiant Hamlet’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 16

‘Squeak and gibber in the _____ _____’

Answer 16

‘Squeak and gibber in the Roman streets’
- Horatio
- A1SI

Question 17

‘This spirit will _____ to him’

Answer 17

‘This spirit will speak to him’
- Horatio
- A1S1

Question 18

‘Prince Hamlet (dressed in ____)’

Answer 18

‘Prince Hamlet (dressed in black)’
- Stage directions
- A1S2

Question 19

‘Our whole kingdom to be contracted in one ____ of ____’

Answer 19

‘Our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe’
- Claudius
- A1S2

Question 20

‘Your better ____’

Answer 20

‘Your better wisdom’
- Claudius
- A1S2

Question 21

‘I am too much in the ____’

Answer 21

‘I am too much in the sun’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 22

‘All lives must ____’

Answer 22

‘All lives must die’
- Gertrude
- A1S2

Question 23

‘Passing through nature to ____’

Answer 23

‘Passing through nature to eternity’
- Gertrude
- A1S2

Question 24

‘I know not ‘____’’

Answer 24

‘I know not ‘seems’’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 25

‘Tis ____ grief’

Answer 25

‘Tis unmanly grief’
- Claudius
- A1S2

Question 26

‘Remain…in the ____ of our ____’

Answer 26

‘Remain….in the comfort of our eye.’
- Claudius
- A1S2

Question 27

‘Too too solid flesh would ____, ____, and ____ itself into a dew’

Answer 27

‘Too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 28

‘’Tis an ____ garden’

Answer 28

‘’Tis an unweeded garden’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 29

‘Hyperion to a ____’

Answer 29

‘Hyperion to a satyr’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 30

‘Within a ____—“

Answer 30

‘Within a month—’
- Aposiopesis
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 31

‘____, thy name is woman’

Answer 31

‘Frailty, thy name is woman’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 32

‘A little more than ___, and less than ___’

Answer 32

‘A little more than kin, and less than kind’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 33

‘Our whole kingdom is to be ___ in one brow of woe’

Answer 33

‘Our whole kingdom is to be contracted in one brow of woe’
- Claudius
- A1S2

Question 34

‘Too too ___ ___ would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a ___’

Answer 34

‘Too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.’
- Hamlet
- A1S2

Question 35

‘Lose your ___, or your ___ ___ open to his unmastered importunity’

Answer 35

‘Lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity’
- Laertes
- A1S3

Question 36

‘The ___ ___ is prodigal enough if she ___ her beauty to the moon’

Answer 36

‘The Charleston maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon’
- Laertes
- A1S3

Question 37

‘___ and ___ libertine’

Answer 37

‘Puffed and reckless libertine’
- Ophelia
- A1S3

Question 38

‘Give every man thy ___, but few thy ___’

Answer 38

‘Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.’
- Polonius
- A1S3

Question 39

‘Think yourself a ___’

Answer 39

‘Think yourself a baby’
- Polonius
- A1S3

Question 40

‘I shall ___’

Answer 40

‘I shall obey’
- Ophelia
- A1S3

Question 41

‘Lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open to his ___ ___’

Answer 41

‘Lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open to his unmastered importunity’
- Laertes
- A1S3

Question 42

‘The Charleston maid is ___ enough if she unmask her ___ to the ___’

Answer 42

‘The Charleston maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon’
- Laertes
- A1S3

Question 43

‘Sleeping in my ___, a ___ stung me’

Answer 43

‘Sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung ,e’
- Ghost

Question 44

‘Upon my ___ thy uncle ___’

Answer 44

‘Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole’
- Ghost

Question 45

‘Now, ___, ___’

Answer 45

‘Now, Hamlet, Hear’
- Ghost

Question 46

‘None so ___ as may ___ him’

Answer 46

‘None so rank as my dishonour him’
- Polonius
- A2S1

Question 47

‘___ his faults so ___’

Answer 47

‘Breathe his faults so quaintly’
- Polonius
- A2S1

Question 48

‘I was about to ___ ___/Where did I ___?’

Answer 48

‘I was about to say something/Where did I leave’
- Polonius
- A2S1

Question 49

‘Your ___ of ___ took this ___ of truth’

Answer 49

‘Your bait of falsehood to this carp of truth’
- Polonius
- A2S1

Question 50

(About his antic-disposition) ‘Hamlet’s ___’

Answer 50

‘Hamlet’s transformation’
- Claudius

Question 51

‘I have found the ___ ___ of Hamlet’s ___’

Answer 51

‘I have found the very cause of Hamlet’s lunacy’
- Polonius
- A2S2

Question 52

‘___ Norway’

Answer 52

‘Brother Norway’
- Claudius
- A2S2

Question 53

(About Poland) ‘___ against the ___’

Answer 53

‘Preparation against the Polack’
- Voltem
- A2S2

Question 54

‘At ___, we’ll ___ together’

Answer 54

‘At night, we’ll feat together’
- Claudius
- A2S2

Question 55

‘Business is ___-___’

Answer 55

‘Business is well-ended’
- Claudius
- A2S2

Question 56

‘She is ___’

Answer 56

‘She is mine’
- Ophelia

Question 57

‘In her duty and ___’

Answer 57

‘In her duty and obedience’
- Polonius
- A2S2

Question 58

‘___ phrase, a ___ phrase’

Answer 58

‘Ill phrase, a vile phrase’
- Polonius
- A2S2

Question 59

‘Doubt thou the ___ fire, doubt the ___ doth move, doubt ___ to be a liar, but never doubt I ___’

Answer 59

‘Doubt thou the stars fire, doubt the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 60

What does Hamlet call Polonius to suggest he is a pimp?

Answer 60

‘Fishmonger’
- A2S2

Question 61

‘If the ___ breed ___ in a dead dog….have you a ___?’

Answer 61

‘If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog…have you a daughter?’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 62

‘Let her not ___ in the ___’

Answer 62

‘Let her not walk in the sun’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 63

‘Into my ___’

Answer 63

‘Into my grave’
- Hamlet

Question 64

‘Were you not ___ ___?’

Answer 64

‘Were you not sent for?’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 65

‘You live about her ___?’

Answer 65

‘You live about her waist?’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 66

‘I will tell ___ ___…’

Answer 66

‘I will tell you why…’
- Hamlet, shift to prose
- A2S2

Question 67

‘Lost all my ___’

Answer 67

‘Lost all my mirth’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 68

‘___ canopy/___ roof with ___ fire’

Answer 68

‘Excellent canopy/Majestical roof with golden fire’
- Hamlet

Question 69

‘Foul/___ congregation of ‘

Answer 69

‘Foul/pestilent congregation of vapours’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 70

‘What is this ___ of dust?’

Answer 70

‘What is this quintessence of dust?’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 71

‘___ delights not me/nor ___’

Answer 71

‘Man delights not me/Nor woman’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 72

‘Uncle-___/aunt-___ are deceived’

Answer 72

‘Uncle-father/aunt-mother are deceived’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 73

‘Old ___’

Answer 73

‘Old Jephthah’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 74

(About the actors) ‘Your voice, like a piece of ___ ___/Give us a ___ of your ___’

Answer 74

‘Your voice, like a piece of uncurrent gold/Give us a taste of your quality’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 75

‘With blood of ___’

Answer 75

‘With blood of fathers’
- Player 1
- A2S2

Question 76

‘Like a ___ to his will and matter, did ___’

Answer 76

‘Like a neutral to his will and matter, did nothing’
- Player 1
- A2S2
- About Pyrrhus, son of Achilles

Question 77

‘What a ___ and ___ slave am I?’

Answer 77

‘What a rogue and peasant slave am I?’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 78

‘What ___ to him, or he to ___?’

Answer 78

‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 79

‘___ off my beard’

Answer 79

‘Plucks off my beard’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 80

‘___, ___, ___ , ___ villain’

Answer 80

‘Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindles villain’
- Hamlet
- A2S2
- Switch to trochaic metre (emphasis on first syllable), asyndetic speech

Question 81

‘___ to my revenge by ___ and ___’

Answer 81

‘Promoted to my revenge by heaven and hell’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 82

‘Like a ___, unpack my ___’

Answer 82

‘Like a whore, unpack my heart’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 83

‘The ___ the thing wherein I’ll ___ the ___ of the king’

Answer 83

‘The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscious of the king.’
- Hamlet
- A2S2

Question 84

‘To ___or not to ___: that is the ___’

Answer 84

‘To be or not to be: that is the question.’
- Hamlet
- A3S1

Question 85

‘To ___, to sleep’, ‘to sleep, perchance to ___’

Answer 85

‘To die, to sleep’, ‘to sleep, perchance to dream’
- Hamlet
- A3S1

Question 86

‘Your ___ should admit no ___ to your ___’

Answer 86

‘Your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty’
- Hamlet
- A3S1

Question 87

‘Breeder of ___’

Answer 87

‘Breeder of sinners’
- A3S1

Question 88

‘God hath given you ___ ___, and you make ___ another’

Answer 88

‘God hath given you once face, and you make yourselves another’
- Hamlet
- A3S1

Question 89

‘We will have no more ___’

Answer 89

‘We will have no more marriages’
- Hamlet
- A3S1

Question 90

‘Love? His ___ do not that way ___.’

Answer 90

‘Love? His affections do not that way tend.’
- Claudius
- A3S1

Question 91

‘The ___ and ___ of his grief sprung from ___ ___’

Answer 91

‘The origin and commencement of his grief sprung from neglected love’
- Polonius
- A3S1

Question 92

‘Speak the ___…’

Answer 92

‘Speak the speech…’
- Hamlet
- A3S2
- Meta-theatre, verse to prose

Question 93

‘___ are only capable of ___-___’

Answer 93

‘Groundlings are only capable of dumb-shows and noise’

Question 94

‘Use all ___/Be not too ___’

Answer 94

‘Use all gently/be not too tame’
- Hamlet
- A3S1

Question 95

The purpose of theatre is to ‘___ a ___ up to ___’

Answer 95

‘Hold a mirror up to nature’
- Hamlet
- A3S2

Question 96

How does Horatio refer to Hamlet?

Answer 96

‘Sweet lord’/‘Dear lord’

Question 97

‘To ___ and ___ thee’

Answer 97

‘To feed and clothe thee’
- Hamlet to Horatio
- A3S2

Question 98

‘I did enact ___ ___/___ killed me’

Answer 98

‘I did enact Julius Caesar/Brutus killed me’
- Polonius
- A3S2

Question 99

‘Do you think I meant ___ matters?/‘Nothing’

Answer 99

‘Do you think I meant country matters?’/‘Nothing’
- Hamlet
- A3S2

Question 100

‘Let the devil wear ___’

Answer 100

‘Let the devil wear black’
- Hamlet
- A3S2

Question 101

‘Still ___ and worse’

Answer 101

‘Still better and worse’
- Ophelia
- A3S2

Question 102

How does Hamlet refer to Horatio?

Answer 102

‘Damon dear’

Question 103

‘’While the ___ ___’ the proverb is something ___’

Answer 103

‘’While the grass grows’ the proverb is something musty’
- Hamlet
- A3S2

Question 104

‘You cannot ___ upon me.’

Answer 104

‘You cannot play upon me’
- Hamlet
- A3S2

Question 105

‘I will speak ___ to her, but use ___’

Answer 105

‘I will speak daggers to her, but use none’
- Hamlet
- A3S2

Question 106

‘Is there not ___ enough in the ___ heavens to ___ it ___ white as snow?’

Answer 106

‘Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?’
- Claudius
- A3S3

Question 107

What rhetorical questions does Claudius use in A3S3?

Answer 107

‘What then? What rests? What can it not?’

Question 108

‘A ___ kills my father, and for that, I, his ___ ___, do this same ___ send to ___’

Answer 108

‘A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole-son, do this same villain send to heaven.’

Question 109

‘Now, ___, what’s the ___?’

Answer 109

‘Now, mother, what’s the matter?’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 110

‘Thou hast thy father ___ ___’/‘___ have my father ___ ___’

Answer 110

‘Thou hast thy father much offended’/‘You have my father much offended’
- Gertrude and Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 111

‘Your ___ ___ wife’

Answer 111

‘Your husband’s brother’s wife’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 112

‘Almost as bad, ___ ___, as ___ a king and marry with his ___. As ___ a king!’

Answer 112

‘Almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother. As kill a king!’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 113

‘You cannot ___ it ___, for at your ___’

Answer 113

‘You cannot call it love, for at your age’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 114

‘In the ___ ___ of an ___ bed, stewed in ___, ___ in and ___ love’

Answer 114

‘In the rank of an unseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honey in and making love’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 115

‘Those words like ___ enter mine ___’

Answer 115

‘Those words like daggers enter mine ear’
- Gertrude
- A3S4

Question 116

‘To ___ do you ___ this?’

Answer 116

‘To whom do you speak this?’
- Gertrude
- A3S4

Question 117

‘___ yourself to heaven. ___ what’s past, ___ what’s to come.’

Answer 117

‘Confess yourself to heaven. Repent what’s past, avoid what’s to come.’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 118

‘Do not ___ the ___ on the weeds’

Answer 118

‘Do not spread the compost on the weeds’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 119

‘What ___ I ___?’

Answer 119

‘What shall I do?’
- Gertrude
- A3S4

Question 120

‘If ___ be made of ___, and ___ of ___, I have no ___ to ___’

Answer 120

‘If words be made of breath, and breath of life, I have no life to breathe.’

Question 121

‘I’ll ___ the ___ into the neighbour’s room’

Answer 121

‘I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour’s room’
- Hamlet
- A3S4

Question 122

‘Mad as the ___ and ___ when both ___’

Answer 122

‘Mad as the sea and wind when both contend’
- Gertrude
- A4S1

Question 123

‘To be demanded of a ___’

Answer 123

‘To be demanded of a sponge’
- Hamlet
- A4S2

Question 124

‘The king is a ___—of ___’

Answer 124

‘The king is a thing — of nothing’
- Hamlet
- A4S2

Question 125

‘We ___ all creatures to ___ us, and we ___ ourselves for ___’

Answer 125

‘We fat all creatures to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.’
- Hamlet
- S4D3

Question 126

‘___ and ___ is man and wife, ___ and ___ is ___ ___’

Answer 126

‘Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh’
- Hamlet
- A4S3

Question 127

Hamlet says man is ‘A ___, no more’

Answer 127

‘A beast, no more’
- A4S4

Question 128

What does Hamlet say about Fortinbras?

Answer 128

‘Led by a delicate and tender prince’
- A4S4

Question 129

‘___ what is mortal and ___’

Answer 129

‘Exposing what is moral and unsure’
- Hamlet, to be mortal is to be unsure
- A4S4

Question 130

‘Her mood will needs be ___’

Answer 130

‘Her mood will needs be pitied’
- Gentleman
- A4S5

Question 131

‘There’s ___ in the world’

Answer 131

‘There’s tricks in the world’
- Gentleman
- A4S5

Question 132

‘Her speech is ___’ but people will use it to ‘___ their own ___’

Answer 132

‘Her speech is nothing’ but people will use it to ‘fit their own thoughts’
- Gentleman
- A4S5

Question 133

‘___ ___ in ill-breeding minds’

Answer 133

‘Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds’
- Horatio
- A4S5

Question 134

‘He is ___ and ___, lady’

Answer 134

‘He is dead and gone, lady’
- Ophelia
- A4S5

Question 135

‘You ___ me to wed/thou hadst not ___ to my ___’

Answer 135

‘You promised me to wed/thou hadst not come to my bed’
- Ophelia
- A4S5

Question 136

‘___ me my father’

Answer 136

‘Give me my father’
- Laertes
- A4S5

Question 137

‘To ___ with ___! ___ to the blackest ___! ___ and ___ to the ___ pit! I ___ damnation.’

Answer 137

‘To hell with allegiance! Vows to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation.’
- Laertes
- A4S5

Question 138

‘I’ll be ___ most thoroughly for my ___’

Answer 138

‘I’ll be revenged most thoroughly for my father’
- Laertes
- A4S5

Question 139

‘I am ___ of your ___ death’

Answer 139

‘I am guiltless of your father’s death’
- Claudius
- A4S5

Question 140

‘My ___will come’

Answer 140

‘My revenge will come’
- Laertes
- A4S7

Question 141

‘Was your ___ ___ to you? Or are you like the ___ of ___, a ___ without a ___?’

Answer 141

‘Was your father dear to you? Or are you like a painting of sorrow, a face without a hear?’
- Claudius
- A4S7

Question 142

‘I’ll have him ___ a ___’

Answer 142

‘I’ll have him prepared a chalice’
- Claudius
- A4S7

Question 143

‘Your sister’s ___’

Answer 143

‘Your sister’s drowned’
- Gertrude
- A4S7

Question 144

‘I ___ my tears’

Answer 144

‘I forbid my tears’
- Laertes
- A4S7

Question 145

‘Is she to be ___ in a ___ burial, when she ___ seeks her own ___?’

Answer 145

‘Is she to be buried in a Christian burial, when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?’
- Clown 1
- A5S1

Question 146

‘If she had not been a ___, she would have been ___ out of a ___ ___.’

Answer 146

‘If she had not been a gentlewoman, she would have been buried out of a Christina burial’
- Clown 2
- A5S1

Question 147

‘Cannot you ___ ? Every ___ can ___ ___.’

Answer 147

‘Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that?
- Clown 1
- A5S1

Question 148

‘___ of ___ jest’/‘___ fancy’/‘he hath ___ me on his ___ a times’

Answer 148

‘A fellow of infinite jest’/‘excellent fancy’/‘he hath borne me on his back a thousand times’
- Hamlet
- A5S1

Question 149

‘Let her ___ an ___ thick, to this ___ she must ___’

Answer 149

‘Let her paint an inch thick, to this she must come’
- Hamlet
- A5S1

Question 150

‘Phrase of ___ ___ the ___ stars and makes them ___’

Answer 150

‘Phrase of sorrow conjures the wandering stars and make them stand’
- Hamlet
- A5S1

Question 151

‘Though I am not ___ and rash…I have in me ___ ___’

Answer 151

‘Though I am not splenative and rash…I have in me something dangerous’
- Hamlet
- A5S1

Question 152

‘I ___ Ophelia’

Answer 152

‘I loved Ophelia’
- Hamlet
- A5S1

Question 153

‘___ your patience’

Answer 153

‘Strengthen your patience’
- Claudius
- A5S2

Question 154

‘They did make ___ to this ___’

Answer 154

‘They did make love to this employment’
- Hamlet
- A5S2

Question 155

‘He hath ___my king, and ___ my mother’

Answer 155

‘He hath killed my king, and whored my mother’
- Hamlet
- A5S2

Question 156

‘Absolute ___/card of ___’

Answer 156

‘Absolute gentleman/card of gentry’
- Osric about Laertes
- A5S2

Question 157

‘You will ___ this ___, my lord’

Answer 157

‘You will lose this wager, my lord’
- Horatio
- A5S2

Question 158

‘I’ll be your ___, Laertes’

Answer 158

‘I’ll be your foils, Laertes’
- Hamlet
- A5S2

Question 159

What instrument sounds before the duel?

Answer 159

‘The trumpet’

Question 160

‘Here, ___, take my ___’

Answer 160

‘Here, Hamlet, take my napkin’
- Gertrude
- A5S2

Question 161

‘Queen ___ to thy ___’

Answer 161

‘Queen carouses to thy fortune’
- Gertrude
- A5S2

Question 162

‘Do not ___’/‘I ___’

Answer 162

‘Do not drink’/‘I will’
- Claudius and Gertrude
- A5S2

Question 163

‘The ___, the ___ to ___’

Answer 163

‘The king, the king’s to blame’
- Laertes
- A5S2

Question 164

‘___, ___, ___ Dane’

Answer 164

‘Incestuous, murdered, damned Dane’
- Hamlet
- A5S2

Question 165

‘___ ___ with me, ___ Hamlet’

Answer 165

‘Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet’
- A5S2

Question 166

‘I am more an ___ ___ than a ___’

Answer 166

‘I am more an antique Roman than a Dane’
- Horatio
- A5S2

Question 167

‘Tell ___ ___’

Answer 167

‘Tell my story’
- Hamlet
- A5S2

Question 168

‘Good ___, ___ prince’

Answer 168

‘Good night, sweet prince’
- Horatio
- A5S2

Question 169

‘To claim my ___’

Answer 169

‘To claim my vantage’
- Fortinbras

Question 170

‘___ Hamlet like a ___’

Answer 170

‘Bear Hamlet like a soldier’
- Fortinbras
- A5S2

Question 171

‘He was ___…to have ___ most ___’

Answer 171

‘He was likely to have proved most royally’
- Fortinbras
- A5S2