Hamlet - Quotes Flashcards
(144 cards)
1
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‘Who’s there?’
A
1.1 Barnardo
2
Q
‘Thou art a scholar. Speak to it Horatio.’
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1.1 Marcellus
3
Q
‘This bodes some strange eruption to our state.’
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1.1 Horatio
4
Q
‘our dear brother’s death…our hearts in grief… our whole kingdom’
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1.2 Claudius
5
Q
‘And we here dispatch you, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand’
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1.2 Claudius
6
Q
‘Take thy fair hour, Laertes’
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1.2 Claudius
7
Q
‘A little more than kin and less than kind’
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1.2 Hamlet
8
Q
‘Cast thy nighted colour off’
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1.2 Gertrude
9
Q
‘Seems, madam? Nay it is. I know not seems’.
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1.2 Hamlet
10
Q
‘Tis unmanly grief’
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1.2 Claudius
11
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‘It is most retrograde to our desire…bend you to remain’
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1.2 Claudius
12
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‘I shall in my best obey you, madam.’
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1.2 Hamlet
13
Q
‘O that this too sullied flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew.’
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1.2 Hamlet
14
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‘How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!’
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1.2 Hamlet
15
Q
‘tis an unweeded garden…rank and gross in nature’
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1.2 Hamlet
16
Q
‘Hyperion to a satyr’
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1.2 Hamlet
17
Q
‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’
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1.2 Hamlet
18
Q
‘O most wicked speed’
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1.2 Hamlet
19
Q
‘incestuous sheets’
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1.2 Hamlet
20
Q
‘The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.’
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1.2 Hamlet
21
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‘Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister and keep you in the rear of your affection.’
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1.3 Laertes
22
Q
‘Best safety lies in fear.’
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1.3 Laertes
23
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‘But, good my brother, do not…show me the steep and thorny way to heaven…recks not his own rede.’
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1.3 Ophelia
24
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‘Give thy thoughts no tongue’
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1.3 Polonius
25
‘to thine own self be true’
1.3 Polonius
26
‘Tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it.’
1.3 Ophelia
27
‘You speak like a green girl’
1.3 Polonius
28
‘I do not know, my lord, what I should think.’
1.3 Ophelia
29
‘I will teach you’
1.3 Polonius
30
‘I shall obey, my lord.’
1.3 Ophelia
31
‘Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell’
1.4 Hamlet
32
‘Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, have burst their cerements.’
1.4 Hamlet
33
‘I do not set my life at a pin's fee.’
1.4 Hamlet
34
‘What if it tempt you toward the flood, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff’
1.4 Horatio
35
‘You shall not go, my lord.’
1.4 Marcellus
36
‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.’
1.5 Ghost
37
‘The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.’
1.5 Ghost
38
‘that incestuous, that adulterate beast’
1.5 Ghost
39
‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest’
1.5 Ghost
40
‘Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her.’
1.5 Ghost
41
‘O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain.’
1.5 Hamlet
42
‘antic disposition’
1.5 Hamlet
43
‘to make inquire of his behaviour.’
2.1 Polonius
44
‘Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.’
2.1 Polonius
45
‘I have been so affrighted!’
2.1 Ophelia
46
‘As if he had been loosed out of hell’
2.1 Ophelia
47
‘Mad for thy love?’
2.1 Polonius
48
‘This is the very ecstasy of love’
2.1 Polonius
49
‘as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied his access to me.’
2.1 Ophelia
50
‘The need we have to use you did provoke our hasty sending.’
2.2 Claudius
51
‘Hamlet’s transformation’
2.2 Claudius
52
‘we both obey’
2.2 Guildenstern
53
‘But never doubt I love…I love thee best.’
2.2 Hamlet (letter)
54
‘I’ll loose my daughter to him.’
2.2 Polonius
55
‘You are a fishmonger’
2.2 Hamlet
56
‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.’
2.2 Polonius
57
‘Denmark’s a prison’
2.2 Hamlet
58
‘To me it is a prison.’
2.2 Hamlet
59
‘Were you not sent for?’
2.2 Hamlet
60
‘What a rogue and peasant slave am I!’
2.2 Hamlet
61
‘What would he do had he the motive and cue for passion that I have?’
2.2 Hamlet
62
‘Like a John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause.’
2.2 Hamlet
63
‘I am pigeon-livered and lack gall’
2.2 Hamlet
64
‘Must like a whore unpack my heart with words.’
2.2 Hamlet
65
‘The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.’
2.2 Hamlet
66
‘lawful espials.’
3.1 Claudius
67
‘To be or not to be - that is the question; whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer…or to take arms against a sea of troubles.’
3.1 Hamlet
68
‘I never gave you aught.’
3.1 Hamlet
69
‘Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.’
3.1 Hamlet
70
‘I did love you once.’
3.1 Hamlet
71
‘I loved you not.’
3.1 Hamlet
72
‘Get thee to a nunnery.’
3.1 Hamlet
73
‘O heavenly powers, restore him!’
3.1 Ophelia
74
‘God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.’
3.1 Hamlet
75
‘Let his Queen mother all alone entreat him…if she finds him not, to England send him.’
3.1 Polonius
76
‘Observe my uncle’
3.2 Hamlet
77
‘No, good mother. Here’s metal more attractive.’
3.2 Hamlet
78
‘Tis brief my lord’
3.2 Ophelia
79
‘As woman’s love.’
3.2 Hamlet
80
‘The king rises.’
3.2 Ophelia
81
‘I did very well note him.’
3.2 Horatio
82
‘She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed.’
3.2 Rosencrantz
83
‘I will speak daggers to her, but use none.’
3.2 Hamlet
84
‘O my offence is rank. It smells to heaven.’
3.3 Claudius
85
‘primal eldest curse…a brother’s murder.’
3.3 Claudius
86
‘My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen.’
3.3 Claudius
87
‘May one be pardoned and retain th’offence?’
3.3 Claudius
88
‘When he is drunk asleep…or in th’incestuous pleasure of his bed.’
3.3 Hamlet
89
‘My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.’
3.3 Claudius
90
‘Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.’
3.4 Gertrude
91
‘Mother, you have my father much offended.
3.4 Hamlet
92
‘How now? A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!’
3.4 Hamlet
93
‘O, I am slain!’
3.4 Polonius
94
‘Is it the king?’
3.4 Hamlet
95
‘A bloody deed - almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.’
3.4 Hamlet
96
‘What have I done that thou darest wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me?’
3.4 Gertrude
97
‘You cannot call it love.’
3.4 Hamlet
98
‘For at your age the heyday in the blood is tame’
3.4 Hamlet
99
‘Nay but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty’
3.4 Hamlet
100
‘O, speak to me no more. These words like daggers enter in mine ears.’
3.4 Gertrude
101
‘Alas, he is mad!’
3.4 Gertrude
102
‘Do not forget.’
3.4 Ghost
103
‘bend your eye on vacancy’
3.4 Gertrude
104
‘Good night. But go not to my uncle’s bed.’
3.4 Hamlet
105
‘Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier.’
4.1 Gertrude
106
‘His liberty is full of threats to all’
4.1 Claudius
107
‘Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain’
4.1 Claudius
108
‘The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body.’
4.2 Hamlet
109
‘Bring me to him.’
4.2 Hamlet
110
‘He’s loved of the distracted multitude.’
4.3 Claudius
111
‘We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.’
4.3 Hamlet
112
‘Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.’
4.3 Hamlet
113
‘you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.’
4.3 Hamlet
114
‘everything is bent for England.’
4.3 Claudius
115
‘By letters congruing to that effect, the present death of Hamlet.’
4.3 Claudius
116
‘For like the hectic in my blood he rages, and thou must cure me.’
4.3 Claudius
117
‘How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge!’
4.4 Hamlet
118
‘The imminent death of twenty thousand men…go to their graves like beds’
4.4 Hamlet
119
‘O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!.’
4.4 Hamlet
120
‘She speaks much of her father’
4.5 Gentlemen
121
‘[singing] He is dead and gone.’
4.5 Ophelia
122
‘this is the poison of deep grief.’
4.5 Claudius
123
‘poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgement’
4.5 Claudius
124
‘The rabble call him lord…’Laertes shall be king!’’
4.5 Messenger
125
'I’ll be revenged most throughly for my father.’
4.5 Laertes
126
‘Tears seven times salt burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!’
4.5 Laertes
127
‘is it possible a young maid’s wits should be as mortal as an old man’s life?’
4.5 Laertes
128
‘rosemary…for remembrance…pansies…for thoughts.’
4.5 Ophelia
129
‘I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.’
4.5 Ophelia
130
‘If by direct or by collateral hand they find us touched, we will our kingdom give, our crown, our life and all that we call ours, to you in satisfaction’
4.5 Claudius
131
‘my revenge will come.’
4.7 Laertes
132
‘I am set naked on your kingdom.’
4.7 Hamlet (letter)
133
‘Will you be ruled by me?’
4.7 Claudius
134
‘I will be ruled…devise it so that I might be the organ.’
4.7 Laertes
135
‘To cut his throat in the church!’
4.7 Laertes
136
‘Revenge should have no bounds.’
4.7 Claudius
137
‘I’ll anoint my sword…if I gall him slightly, it may be death.’
4.7 Laertes
138
‘Your sister’s drowned, Laertes.’
4.7 Gertrude
139
‘clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke…herself fell in the weeping brook.’
4.7 Gertrude
140
‘Her clothes spread wide and mermaid like’
4.7 Gertrude
141
‘As one incapable of her own distress’
4.7 Gertrude
142
‘like a creature naive and indued unto that element.’
4.7 Gertrude
143
‘I forbid my tears.’
4.7 Laertes
144
